Some Beginner Questions

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  seahorsecp · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 1:05 am

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  Hi everyone, I am new to WordPress, and I have some questions so far:
  – What version of WordPress is my blog using?
  – Where is the theme editor? I can’t seem to find it!
  – How do I add administrators?
  – style.css… What is it?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  seahorsecp · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 1:07 am

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  Another quick question:
  – What is functions.php?

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  theslysilverfox · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 2:09 am

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  Theme Editor: If you are on your blog, place your mouse pointer to your user name, which is located at the top right hand corner. You will see the name of your blog at the bottom of the menu; place your mouse pointer on it and then click on Dashboard. When you are in Dashboard, scroll down until you see the word Appearance. Click on Appearance and select Themes. Then, you will see the Manage themes page and there you will click on Customize. This will take you to the screen where you can do changes to how your blog looks for example: the colour, background, header images etc.

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  jarretcade · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 5:13 am

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  WordPress.com runs on the latest version of the WordPress software.
  On a WordPress.com blog you do not have access to the theme editor. This is to prevent security issues and isn’t something that can be bought.
  You can add additional users to your site by logging into your admin area and visiting Users->Invite New and filling out the details.
  style.css is how you edit the CSS of your theme. It controls things like text color, text size, content alignment and other things. If you’d like to have access to edit your CSS you can go to Appearance->Custom Design in the admin area and purchase the upgrade.
  unctions.php is used in a theme to help add extra features to a theme. Sort of like adding a plugin but it is active only in the theme and you lose that functionality if you move to a different theme. Here on WordPress.com you don’t have access to functions.php as this is intended to prevent security issues.
  If you would like to have access to functions.php and mess around with content for your site, you can either setup a local webserver on your computer and download the WordPress software and configure it. Or you can purchase your own web hosting and install WordPress on there to play around with it.

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  seahorsecp · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 2:33 pm

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  Thank you both, I believe this is solved.

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  seahorsecp · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 2:34 pm

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  Oops, no it’s not…

  One more question, sorry.

  How do I change the color of my text while writing a post?

  And that bar under my banner that says RSS and search. How do I get rid of it?

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  seahorsecp · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 3:05 pm

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  How do I change the size of my text while writing a post or a page?