Title: child theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# child theme

 *  [tennos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tennos/)
 * (@tennos)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-39/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-39/#post-3985166)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tennos/)
 * (@tennos)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-39/#post-3985175)
 * 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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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-39/#post-3985175)
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