How To Customize Your Wordpress 2.5+ Log In Screen

To change the logo from the Wordpress logo toTo change the colour of the background (ie. the
your logobaby blue colour)
1. Login to your site via FTP or your preferred1. Open the colors-fresh.css file which is also found in
method and locate the file 'login.css' which is found inyour wp-admin/css/ folder.
your wp-admin/css/ folder. Open this css file in your2. Locate the TWO #eaf3fa colour's in this file and
favourite editor.replace them with any colour you like. I would
2. In the login.css file look for the line:background: url(..recommend a light washed out or neutral colour. I
images/logo-login.gif) no-repeat;and change it to yourchose my site colour which is grey. (#EAEAEA)
own image for example...background: url(../images3. Don't stop here, you can customise your log in
YOURLOGO.gif) no-repeat;screen as much as you like! Mine was just a quick
NB: You will probably want to make the logo aroundexample.
290 pixels wide.Just a note to remember to backup these two CSS
3. For the more advanced users this is where youfiles (colors-fresh and login.css) before you do any
can customise the look of the login anyway you likeWordpress updates as these updates will overwrite
using CSS which I know you will. I just changed thethese files and you will have to do it all over again!
fonts to Helvetica to match my site.