How to Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS (Video Tutorial)

Categories: Video Tutorial, Web Development, Wordpress

In this video tutorial we will show you how you can customize the sytle of your WordPress site easily using a FireFox addon called Firebug. You can do the same thing using Google Chrome’s inspector tool too. We’ll do this by walking you through a live example in which we will make a selection of modifications to a standard WordPress site using the TwentyEleven WordPress theme.

What is Firebug

Firebug is a handy tool which every web developer and blog owner should have in their arsenal. Firebug enables you to very easily investigate or troubleshoot almost any CSS design question or problem. It is an ideal tool for WordPress bloggers because you can use it to assist you in making modifications to your WordPress site’s styling or layout.

What will be Covered in this Video Tutorial

we will show you examples of CSS modifications for properties and scenarios such as the following:

Changing the background color of a page
Modifying the padding and margin properties to achieve a particular spacing between elements
Changing the colors of text such as the main blog title and post titles
Moving a particular element on a page by modifying some of its properties

Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS Video Part 1

Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS Video Part 2

Alternatively, you can view this videos on YouTube by going to the following links

Another helpful resource is the basic CSS guide.

Hopefully these videos will help you customize various aspects of your WordPress site’s CSS easily.

#1 by jin on June 20, 2012 - 9:38 am

Thank you for this nice post on how to use Firebug!

#2 by Peter Fisher on December 3, 2011 - 4:51 am

Yes its open source. Its a Firefox addon. You can get it here http://getfirebug.com/ and you contribute to the development here http://getfirebug.com/getinvolved

#3 by healthy and fresh info on November 30, 2011 - 7:41 am

Hi, thanks for your tips, this is open source tools??

#4 by admin on November 22, 2011 - 9:01 pm

Hi Melanie, You can use any of the following open source lightweight editors

Notepad++ Editor – http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Context Editor – http://www.contexteditor.org/

#5 by Melanie on November 22, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Very clear and easy to follow video. One question: which CSS editor do you use/recommend? If it is not open-source, is there a free editor that you can recommend?
Thanks!