child theme

  • tennos

    (@tennos)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    hey guys,
    fairly new to wordpress but learning quickly. I want to make changes to my twenty elven theme so i have created a child theme as follows:

    `/*
    Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
    Theme URI: http: //rainbowbeachsurfschool.com/
    Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
    Author: ty
    Author URI: http: //rainbowbeachsurfschool.com/
    Template: twentyeleven
    Version: 0.1.0
    */
    @import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”); `

    The problem i am having is that after i have activated this there is nothing listed in the editor for me to change (eg making the nosidebar wider)
    please let me know what im doing wrong

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    You’re not doing anything wrong – you need to ADD only changes to the new style.css file – by using a browser tool like Firebug, find the CSS you want to change and COPY that bit of CSS to the child theme – and that will override the CSS of the parent theme.

    Thread Starter tennos

    (@tennos)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    thanks for the info.
    So i want to make the nosidebar layout wider as it is super narrow. looking at other forums the solution for this is to add the following

    .one-column #page {
   max-width: 1000px;
}

    however, placing this in the child theme doesnt seem to make any changes to the page. Any ideas why?

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