One of the easiest ways of making a quick change to your WordPress theme is changing the text color.

Sure images can make a world of difference, but for a blog with no images this might be the only customization you can make to your theme. And the good news is — it’s a quick and easy change!

Today I’m going to show you how to change the color in selective pieces of text only. My next post will explain how to change the text color in every post and page on your blog — and how to make your links stand out with a different color.

How to change the text color in a single post or page

If you just want to change the text color of a few words or sentences — and not make the change to your whole theme there’s an extra piece of code you can add in that will do that for you.

First make sure that you’re viewing the html of your post, so click on the HTML tab in your Post box:

Then all you have to do is put in this code:

Of course, remember to substitute the Enter text here with whatever words you want to change the color of and make sure that you select the right color — #000000 is just black.

Now you can use the word black instead of the number #000000 — the color change will still work, but I would recommend the numbers (for a number of reasons that I’m not going to go in here, just trust me it will work better).

If you’re not familiar with the number codes for all colors, don’t worry you’re not alone. There are plenty of places to find them.

One site I use for quick reference is this CSS Color Chart — all you have to do is find the color you like and write down the hex number:

And by the way if you want to make the HTML tab in your posts and pages to be permanent (which I actually recommend, because it will force you to learn html) you can go to your User Account under Users, and Your Profile, and in your Personal Options section at the top uncheck the box that says Use the visual editor when writing:

You might hate the change at first, but six months from now when you’re bragging to your friends that you know html — you’ll thank me 🙂

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I hope this quick fix helps. My next post will discuss how to make the color change global, so it affects the text in your entire theme.