I must be an idiot bc my customizing is a mess

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  jixxer17 · Member · Aug 22, 2015 at 12:19 am

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  90% of what I’m trying to customize on my new theme does not seem to work. I don’t even see any customizing tools that really do very much to adapt m y old theme to look anything like the sample these that are listed. UGH and if someone can tell me what CSS stands for i would appreciate it. are people just suppose to know these things from a past life ? ugh , seriously frustrating working here .

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  texahoma21 · Member · Aug 22, 2015 at 8:41 pm

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  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.

  Other than that, that’s the most I can assist you with right now. I just started here long enough to post this.

  Honestly though, I’m looking forward to being able to let other people know my opinions! Happy blogging!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 24, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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  If you let me know what you’re trying to tweak I’d be glad to help.

  Free options include changing the background colour and changing fonts.

  With an upgrade to the Premium or Business plan, you can make other changes as well, including adding CSS code to target specific elements on your site that modify the way it looks. You can learn more about those options here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  If you decide to upgrade your site and need help with specific CSS customizations – for example, let’s say you wanted to change the colour of post titles on your blog page – we have a special forum full of helpful volunteers and staff who can help:

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

  If you’d like to learn a bit about CSS, these are some good starting points:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/css-basics/

  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/css-selectors/

  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/css-intro/

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

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/how-to-find-your-themes-css/

  Just let us know if you need more help.