I had someone ask me how they can change the text color in a blog post. I thought at first you could just highlight the text and change the color, but I guess WordPress doesn’t offer that option for self-hosted blogs. So here is how you can change the text colors in any blog post that you want.

First you want to make sure you are in the HTML view of your edit window.

Once you are in the HTML view you can change the text color. You will then need to find the hex color code that you want to use. A hex code is a 6 alpha-numeric code that tells the web browser what color to display the text. To find a text color you can use this hex code color finder – Hex Code Color Finder

Once you have the 6 digit code for your color then we can start coding your text.

<span style=”color:#B8002E;”>Colored text</span>
Here is what it will look like: Colored text

That’s what the code will look like, so let me break it down for you.  You open the code and define the span for the span of text you want to change the color.  Then follow that with style, since you are styling the text, an equal sign and open quotes.  The color command is what changes the color of your text, so fill in the hex code for the color.  Make sure you have a pound sign before the 6 digit hex code.  After the hex code you have to close the command with a semi-colon,  close quotes and then close your carrot. After you have typed the text that you want the color changed, make sure to close the span of text with the </span> command.

So here’s the short explanation: open carrot (<) span then style, then equal sign.  Open quote, color, colon, open quotes, pound sign, hex code, semi-colon, close quotes, close carrot (>).  Then text you want to be changed.  Then close span command (</span>).

Easy enough right?