• schmitjl

    (@schmitjl)


    I’m a college student working on a wordpress site (this is my first wordpress site). I’m trying to manipulate the theme by editing the style.css document but nothing on the blog updates. I know that the file is connected because when I deleted style.css from fetch the blog lost all of its styling. Anyone have advice?

    Thanks!

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  • stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    Can you post a link to your website?

    Thread Starter schmitjl

    (@schmitjl)

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    From a quick glance at your site, you have a lot of CSS rules defined in your document which are overriding the styles in your stylesheet. Some of them look like they’re from the WooCommerce plugin, but I’m not sure where the others are from. What specifically are you trying to change?

    Wolfs bRain

    (@wolfs-brain)

    Hi there Schmit,
    I was looking at the link you gave us and i couldn’t find a child theme or a custom css sheet. If you need to change css make sure you use a child theme or a plugin that allows you to change your css such as the JetPack Plugin. Its imperative that you do not change the css in the parent theme or in the next update of your theme your css changes will be overwritten. If youd like to know how to make a child theme just click here

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    WordPress.org does a really nice job of explaining how to create a child theme step by step.

    If you wish you can also tell us what you wish to change specificaly on the page. Feel free to message us anytime.

    Thread Starter schmitjl

    (@schmitjl)

    Thank you both so much. I created a child theme and I activated it on WordPress. I tried playing around with changing the font but the stylesheet is still being overridden. I’m not sure what the issue is!

    Thread Starter schmitjl

    (@schmitjl)

    For more information, this project requires us to make enough changes to where the final product does not look like the original theme at all.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Are you sure it’s just something to do with your very unspecific CSS selectors?

    E.g. try something more obvious:

    body {
    	border: 10px solid red;
    }

    So it looks like you have a ThemeForest theme? Have you contacted the people who sold that theme to you?

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