manipulating wordpress theme

[CircleFaust]

hi
i was hoping there would be a way to remove the hover feature from my sites menus.
they do not work for this modern age of tablets and smart phone use
can i change them to just be click buttons?
it’s a theme called boldy, but there are no options to remove the hover in the settings
i guess it would be a slight amendment to the CSS or html?
is there a way to see the code in wordpress dashboard and change it?
thanks

 

[touch]

Most themes have different menus for phones/tablets. How are you testing it? If you just resize a browser window it may not show the correct menu.

Go into appearance > editor to see the code. Usually, the menu hover would be done in css and it's not easy to change that to clicks if you're not sure what you're doing.

 

[CircleFaust]

thanks, it's an older theme so don't think it ever had mobile capabilities
when i go into appearance / customise you can see the tablet and phone views. the hover is active in all three

i think it's these home boxes i'm using for the menus

#homeBoxes .homeBox img:hover {
border-color:#F9F9F9;

site is http://blueguitar.info/

 

[BaroUK2]

See following css code in style.css
Line 188 to 197
Change color or remove image to your liking.

#mainMenu ul li a:hover {
    text-decoration:none;
    background:url(images/bk_mainmenu.png) 0 0 repeat-x;
    color:#96DDFC;
}


#mainMenu ul li ul li a:hover{
    background:#132325;
}

 

[touch]

The hover is done in css so there's no easy way to change it to click. It's also bad UI to have website dropdown menus open on a click because no other sites do this.

The simplest way would be to just switch to a responsive theme which works the way you want on phones/tablets. Pretty much any modern theme does this.

 

[CircleFaust]

right, is it easy enough to switch themes in wordpress?
i've only ever used this one

 

[touch]

Yes. Go to appearance > themes. You can search + install new themes or select one of the ones which is already there (usually the default wordpress themes like "twentyfifteen" will be there).