Using child theme. How do I change footer color which is NOT in main style.css

  • lindadavidson

    (@lindadavidson)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    resumes2impress.com, using squirrel, squirrel-child
    I have a child theme set up. I was able to change the color of the menu bar. The footer colors are not in the main style.css. They’re in another css in wp-content/themes/squirrel/color/blue.css. How do I handle that in the child theme??
    Thanks,
    Linda

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  • Thread Starter lindadavidson

    (@lindadavidson)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Question #2
    After I activate the child theme do I go back to the parent, Squirrel, to make theme option changes? I can’t get them to take effect in the child.
    resumes2impress.com
    Thanks!

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    No, you should make any and all changes in the Child Theme. Try using a browser tool such as Firebug to look at the CSS code which is setting the color that you want to change – you just copy the CSS to the child theme and change it there:

    .footer {
    background-color: #2688BC;
    color: #B4D4E5;
}

    It looks like the secondary stylesheet is being loaded after the child theme one, so that may be problematic…as CSS is read top down. So you may want to try adding important to the new styles:

    .footer {
    background-color: #new color !important;
    color: #B4D4E5;
}

    For future questions, you should post in the theme’s sub-forum here:

    http://wordpress.org/support/theme/squirrel

    That tags it so the developer sees the post.

    Thread Starter lindadavidson

    (@lindadavidson)

    11 years ago

    The instructions, including the important!, did it! Thanks so much.
    The changes I make in theme options in the child theme aren’t happening however.
    I’ll post that question to the sub-forum also.
    Thank you again WPyogi. It’s such a relief to get information.
    Linda

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