Seedlet by Automattic: A writing and content based theme’s Modifications, Support and Customization

Seedlet  by Automattic is a free WordPress theme which is designed to focus on typography allowing your writing and content to shine. If you want to use this theme, i have shared some css which you can use to change the design, like font, color, size etc of the theme.

You can download Seedlet by Automattic from WordPress Repository.

Download Child theme of Seedlet

You can contact me at om2000_cuet in my skype or can ask question in comments section

1. If you want to reduce the gap from the top and bottom of the header as per the screenshot attached

header#masthead {
    padding-top: 12px !important;
    padding-bottom: 20px !important;
}

2. To change the font size, color, font family of site title and also to remove the border line below the site title

.site-title, .site-title * {
    font-size: 36px;
    color: darkred !important;
    font-family: cursive !important;
    border: none !IMPORTANT;
    /* text-shadow: none !important; */
    text-decoration: none !important;
    background: none !IMPORTANT;
}

3. To change the hove font color of the site title

.site-title a:hover {
    color: blue !important;
}

4. To change font size, color and font family of site description

 .site-description {
    font-size: 23px !important;
    color: darkred !important;
    font-family: cursive !important;
}

5. If you want to change font size, color and font family of menu items

ul#menu-primary a {
    font-size: 19px;
    color: red !important;
    font-family: cursive !important;
}

6. If you want the current or selected menu item to be stand out

li.current-menu-item a {
    background: red !important;
    color: white !IMPORTANT;
}

7. To change hover font color and use a background color in menu items

ul#menu-primary li a:hover {
    color: white !IMPORTANT;
    background: grey !important;
}

Single Post Modifications

7. If you want to change font size, font color and font family of single post title

.single-post h1.entry-title {
    font-size: 22px;
    color: darkred !important;
    font-family: cursive;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
}

To reduce the gap between Top Menu and starting of Post title or content

.single header#masthead {
    padding-bottom: 0px !IMPORTANT;
}

8. If you want to put a background color behind post title

.single-post h1.entry-title {
    background: darkred;
    padding: 12px;
    color: white !IMPORTANT;
}

9. If you want to remove the gap in single post footer meta section

footer.entry-footer.default-max-width {
    margin-top: 0px !important;
}

10. If you don’t want to show the post date, post author and category name in footer

footer.entry-footer {
    display: none;
}

11. If you want to use a box shadow around Author bio

.author-bio {
    box-shadow: 4px 1px 11px 6px grey;
    padding: 12px;
}

12. To change the font size, color and font family of Author title

h2.author-title {
    font-size: 28px !important;
    color: red !important;
    font-family: cursive !important;
}

13. If you want to make the “View More Posts” to be more stand out like button

a.author-link {
    background: darkred;
    color: white;
    padding: 12px;
    margin-top: 12px !IMPORTANT;
    display: inline-block;
}

If you want to change Proudly powered by wordpress text in your theme and want to use your company info, i have shown it in the screenshot above. I have used child theme to do it without using any plugins. Download Seedlet Child theme.

14. To use background color in footer of Seedlet theme + to change the color of footer text

footer#colophon {
    background: red !important;
    max-width: 100% !important;
    width: auto !IMPORTANT;
}
.site-info {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}
.site-info * {
    color: white !IMPORTANT;
    text-decoration: none !IMPORTANT;
    border: none !important;
}

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