Glossary of WordPress CSS terms?

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  eanbehr · Member · Sep 21, 2013 at 4:04 am

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  I want to use the sandbox theme and build my site from scratch, but I don’t know what terms you use for the different site elements. For instance, what do you call the element where all the social media icons are displayed. I’ve seen the menu called ‘menu’ and ‘access.’ I can develop m own nomenclature, just as I would if I were building a website, but I have no way of knowing whether WordPress will understand the names I’ve given the elements. Do you have a glossary of terms that you use?

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 22, 2013 at 8:06 pm

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  Hi there – You’d modify the elements that already exist in the theme’s CSS. You can determine what the theme elements are called by using the web inspector in Chrome.

  We’ve got a great series on the Daily Post teaching our users basic CSS. You should check these out! They’re a big help:

  An Intro to CSS, or How to Make Things Look Like You Like

  An Intro to CSS: Finding CSS Selectors

  
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/css-matched-rule-pane/

  We can only provide limited support for CSS, but if you have some questions as you go along, you can ask in the CSS forum here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  If you’re not already very familiar with CSS, I recommend going with a different theme, and practicing making some customizations to it. We also have links to some tutorials here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/#css-help

  For the social media icons in particular, you can simply add them in a text widget:
  Add Social Media Buttons to Your Sidebar or Footer

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  eanbehr · Member · Sep 22, 2013 at 8:37 pm

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  hi back.

  That’s far too tedious a way to do it. The web inspector is a miserable interface to use. (Maybe I’m just spoiled by Dreamweaver.) I am very familiar with CSS. Also, changing everything, including repositioning page elements in one fell swoop before it goes live is silly. I redo my web pages dozens of times during testing and designing. So, no glossary, huh? Sorry, but clicking on the element then trying to find it and understand it in the inspector element by element is a no-go. I’ll either download the WordPress.org codex, so I can design and test offline or find a different way to host the blog. Thanks, though.

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 22, 2013 at 8:39 pm

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  Hi there – If you’d like to design your site from scratch, you probably would indeed be better off with a self-hosted WordPress site, where you can edit your theme files. WordPress.com is a managed hosting platform, and it’s not possible to edit the HTML of sites hosted here. You can read more about this here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/