I can't change the color on certain elements of my theme

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  headingforandromeda · Member · Dec 17, 2013 at 10:58 pm

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  I purchased the custom design for our blog artlifebusiness.wordpress.com and we’ve not published yet. I’m having difficulty changing some of the colors–the links under Meta barely show up on the background.. When I go to inspect element and color picker and choose another color–there’s no way to save it. Can you help?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 18, 2013 at 1:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  When you use your browser inspector (by selecting “Inspect Element”) to pick a new color, that will only change the color in your browser temporarily. To save the changes, you can go to Appearance > Customize in your dashboard and open the CSS section there. In the CSS editor, you can paste the new CSS you created in your browser inspector.

  We have videos to show how that works here: How to Find Your Theme’s CSS

  If you’d like more information about how custom CSS works at WordPress.com, we have additional tips at these links:

  • CSS Basics
  • Editing CSS

  And if you have any questions about how CSS works, most of our CSS support is done in our CSS Customization forum here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  You can search there for information, or you can start a new post there and the expert staff and volunteers in that forum will help you out. :) Please let me know if you have any questions about that!