Overview

The GPP Welcome Message Widget is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to create a large welcome message in any widgetized region of your theme.  Use this plugin in conjunction with our Base theme framework and the GPP Base Hook Widgets plugin to add welcome messages in virtually any of Base’ 12 hookable regions.  To show specific Welcome Messages on specific pages or posts, use the Widget Logic plugin.

Customize with CSS

You can customize the look and feel of your Welcome Message by overriding the default styling of the plugin.  Here are the available css classes and a brief example:

.welcomebox { margin:60px 0; padding: 40px; background:#FEFFD8 }
.welcomebox h2 { font-family: Georgia; font-style: bold; font-size: 72px }
.welcomebox h3 { font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic; font-size: 34px }