[Kalico]

I really like the overall layout of the cbox theme, but I am having a terrible time getting some of the parts to cooperate with the changes I’m making in the Theme Options tool.

An example can be seen at http://chocolate2code.com/wp2/members/mamah/

I have disabled all plugins, except the cbox installed ones. I’ve made almost no modifications, other than to try to adjust the theme settings. My basic problem is that I’m ending up with a black menu bar, and black/blue buttons on the left nav of the Member page. I want these to be much lighter – white or light gray. I also can’t change the text color in the footer.

I’m fine with doing custom CSS, I just can’t seem to make that work either.

More details:

1) All adjustments to the “Menu:below header” option have no effect on the color of the menu. I simply want to change the background color to something besides black — white would be sufficient — but it’s become obvious that the actual appearance of the menu is not controlled by the “background color” function of the tool. I have looked at the CSS and tried to make modifications, I’ve discovered that there is a gradient I can control which seems to help in dev tools (such as Firefox or Chrome), but my custom CSS isn’t overriding the theme, so I’m still not getting the result I want.

2) I can’t find anything in the entire Theme Options tool that controls the buttons on the member sidebar.

3) I’ve managed to get some areas to cooperate by setting a very light image for the texture/background overlay, and a zero opacity setting. But it doesn’t work on the Menu.

4) I managed to lighten the footer with the trick in #3, but I can’t seem to control the text color with the same option.

Any help would be much appreciated. I have tried installing other themes (on other test sites) and overall I like this one best, so I’d really like to find a way to make the colors work.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Marci –

For number 1 – this is a known issue.  You might want to look at this post – https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/footer-top-bottom-menus-background-color-change-not-working/

I think the theme updates the dynamic css file, so it is really not possible to override (I’ve tried too).

I think if you locate your menu inside the header, you will be able to change the settings. That seems to work fine for me.

There is a ticket concerning the other menu locations on github – https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/issues/187

Hi @bowe – any update on this issue?

For number 2 – Are you referring to the icons to the right of the menu items?

For number 3 – Yes, agreed – this is an issue being addressed on the same ticket – https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/issues/187

For number 4 –

You are right, the setting are not working correctly (same ticket as above), but you might want to play around with some custom CSS to change it (CBOX Theme Options>>Global>>Custom CSS):

#footer {
background-color: #ffffff;
}

That seems to work for me.

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