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Theme Toujours By Automattic : CSS Customization

Create Website using Toujours theme

Toujours has a simple, elegant design that’s perfect for planning and sharing moments from your wedding. The theme highlights your content with a slideshow, large featured images, and a unique layout for recent posts.

Download Toujours  theme by Automattic  to create your own wedding / blogging website.

Download Toujours  theme by Automattic Child Theme  to modify the theme without touch the parent theme.

Here i am sharing some customization of Toujours theme. So You can use my shared code and ask question in the comments section.

** How to add header image just above the Site Title

Answer: Please check the screenshot

theme toujours by automattic header image or banner add

*** how to show three image side by side just above the blog posts in homepage

show image side by side just above blog posts

*** If you don’t want to show  Post date and comments  below the post title?

.entry-header .entry-meta {
display: none;
}

***  To change  Post title  Uppercase  to normal, font family , color change and font size change

h2.entry-title, h2.entry-title a {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: 500;
text-transform: none !important;
letter-spacing: 0.05em;
font-family: cursive;
}

*** To change post content section font family, color and font size

.entry-content {
font-family: cursive;
font-size: 21px;
color: black !important;
}

*** If you want to implement whole body / site    font color, font size and font family

body, button, input, select, textarea {
color: #404040;
font-family: “Merriweather”, Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.8;
}

*** How to change font size , color and font family of  Contiune Reading

a.more-link {
color: darkred !important;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: cursive;
text-decoration: none;
}

To give Continue Reading ->  different look (box shaped)

a.more-link {
color: white;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: cursive;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 2%;
background: darkred;
}

Continue Reading Box shaped

** How to change Site Title font color, font size and font family

.site-title a {
color: darkred;
font-size: 36px !important;
font-family: cursive;
}

Reduce gap above site title

*** To Reduce gap just above the site title

#page {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}

and

Top Header full width background

To give the top header a different look

header#masthead .wrap {
margin-left: 0px !important;
margin-right: 0px !important;
background: darkred !important;
}
.main-navigation {
background: white !important;
margin-top: 0px !important;
}
.site-title a {
color: white !important;
}
.site-branding {
padding: 3% !important;
}

*** If you want to change footer background to be different background

#footer-widgets, #colophon {
background-color: darkred;

}

*** To change footer social icons color

.jetpack-social-navigation-genericons a:before {

color: white !important;
}

*** How to change footer social links address

Footer Social URL change

****** Menu Section Change ******

*** How to change menu background color, top and bottom border color  showing in menu

.main-navigation {
border-bottom: 4px double darkred;
border-top: 4px double darkred;
background: green;
}

Menu Section Modifications

*** To change the menu font color (parent menu),font family and size

ul#primary-menu > li > a {
color: white;
font-family: cursive;
font-size: 21px;
}

*** To make the Selected menu different color or different background color

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

widget title font color background modifications

*** To give widget title a different look with your own font, background color, font size and more

.widget h3 {
font-size: 22px;
color: darkred !important;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
background: yellow;
padding-top: 11px;
margin-bottom: 11px;
font-family: cursive;
}

*** To change links in widget section’s font color, font size and font family

.widget li a {
color: darkred !important;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: cursive;
}

If you have any issue feel free to ask me question here in comments section

15 thoughts on “Theme Toujours By Automattic : CSS Customization”

  1. Hello,
    I’m use the thème “toujours” bit i don’t have in the theme option the chek box Display a thin inset border on featured images … do you know why ? Can you help me … i need to have a slide zone on may website :-)
    Thanks

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      1. No, I see the option on a wordpress.com free plan.
        My association choose to install our website in another place (ovh), so i choose the toujours theme but the look (and the option) are not the same that with wordpress.com.
        So my need is to have the same look and option that wordpress.com but in another place.
        Sorry my english is very poor

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      2. I install jetpack on my “ovh blog” …
        I connect to wordpress.com …
        But i still do not have the option for the slider in the header, and the font for the site is not the same :-(

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      3. Thank for your help, it’s work now.
        Just another question, what is the best size for image in slider ?
        Sandrine

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  2. Thanks for your guide, it’s been really helpful in reducing the whitespace above the logo on my website. However, perhaps you can help? I’m trying to reduce the white space under my clickable logo, but above the menu and I’m struggling. I’ve used CSS Peeper to find out the names of the areas, but nothing I try works and the white space remains. Any ideas? My site is https://travelvixta.com/

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