WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, Third Edition

11. Getting Fancy with Themes

In This Chapter

Customizing Your Theme with CSS

Adding a Favicon

Editing the Functions File

Putting It All Together

So you want to make your theme a little less generic? Then this is the chapter for you! We’ll walk you through the process of making modifications to your theme. In particular, we’ll teach you how to use HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to customize key aspects of your theme; how to add a favicon, the little icon that identifies a site in the bookmark bar of some browsers; and how to edit the functions.php file to add support for exciting WordPress attributes like featured images, custom backgrounds and headers, and custom menus.

Customizing Your Theme with CSS

With a little knowledge of CSS, ...