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Javascript noob needs a point in the right direction

by miawallace
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Thanks in advance to anyone willing to read this/advise me.

I am currently working with a Wordpress theme, and I tweaked some colors in it to suit the client.

There is a slideshow function, and I want to change the color of the caption pop up. I poked around in the file manager and saw that it's controlled by javascript.

I've never worked with JS before, so this is my first assumption. Can I just edit the files in a javascript editor? I downloaded Free JavaScript Editor, and it looks simple and straightforward.

I'm taking a guess here, and thinking I should unzip the files in the original WP template, find the javascript file, open it in the editor, make the tweaks, then save. Then zip the folder back up and it should be good to go?

Will that work? Is there something simpler that I'm unaware of?
#direction #javascript #noob #point
  • Profile picture of the author leiden
    JS files are plain text files, so you can use almost any kind of text editors (except for MS Word). Save the file to your computer, edit it, and upload it via FTP.
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  • Profile picture of the author miawallace
    Awesome, thank you. Glad to hear it's that simple. I think I tried opening it in Word before, and it wasn't readable.
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