[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26188: Twenty Fourteen: Improve the Basic Child Theming Experience

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#26188: Twenty Fourteen: Improve the Basic Child Theming Experience
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme     |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 I found three issues in the header/sidebar/footer for color changes:
 - unneeded selector on the header nav
 - site description is set to overlap the shadow on the header. We should
 probably give it some more padding/margin; it's only not an issue for us
 by default because the background is pure black (`#000`), ''anything''
 else and it'll show up.
 - it is almost impossible to figure out how the sidebar's background color
 is set. Took me forever, and I'm pretty familiar with Twenty Fourteen and
 using tools to find where style rules are set. If Chrome hadn't recently
 added pseudo-elements to the document tree in their inspector, I wouldn't
 have found it. On top of the fact that we're using a pseudo-element, the
 rule is burried '''3500 lines''' into our main css file. I think this will
 be one of the most common things people will want to change, and the
 solution is simple if you know it. We either need a good way of
 documenting this, or to use a different, more cumbersome method for
 setting the sidebar background color (I do really like how this is being
 done, haven't seen this approach before, but it's unexpected).

 See patches and screenshots above for the first two. The third one is
 certainly fixable, but will be less eloquent. We need to decide if we'd
 rather have a solution that's beautiful code or easy to customize for
 coloring the left sidebar background.

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