Title: Child Theme Question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Child Theme Question

 *  Resolved [acanniere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acanniere/)
 * (@acanniere)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/)
 * I have a Child Theme activated for the Twenty Eleven theme. In the CSS stylesheet
   it has the code for importing from the Twenty Eleven template.
 * If I want to make small tweaks in the CSS/stylesheets, should I do so in the 
   parent page? If so, will the changes stay in place for my child theme activated
   version when the parent theme is updated?

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475515)
 * Never make ANY changes in the parent theme, that’s the point of the child theme
 * Simply copy the rule you wish to edit from the parent theme to the child theme,
   and then make your edits
 * Or write entirely new css rules in your child theme
 * Any css rules you add to your child css go under the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   line
 *  Thread Starter [acanniere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acanniere/)
 * (@acanniere)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475520)
 * What happens if you do make a change in the parent theme?
 * The problem is, the editor for the Child Theme only has a stylesheet with this
   code:
 * /*
    Theme Name: Twentyeleven Child Description: Child theme for the twentyeleven
   theme Author: … Template: twentyeleven */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../twentyeleven/style.
   css”);
 * #site-title a {
    color: #009900; }
 * How do I add CSS or stylesheet rules to that?
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475527)
 * If you make changes to the parent theme, they get lost when WP is upgraded. To
   add rules to your existing child theme css just add them to the bottom of your
   sheet.
 *     ```
       /
   
       @import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");
   
       #site-title a {
       color: #009900;
       }
       #more-rules {
       go: here;
       }
       ```
   
 * If you don’t know what rules to edit, you can select twentyeleven from your theme
   editor, look for what you want to change, copy it, go back to your child theme,
   paste it, then edit.
 * Or do what I do. Download 2011 to your computer so you can look at the whole 
   style.css, and copy rules from there to your child style.css
 *  Thread Starter [acanniere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acanniere/)
 * (@acanniere)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475531)
 * Thanks, very helpful. Just did that… though I pasted some old stylesheet rules
   under the heading section from my old website and it didn’t seem to make any 
   difference.
 * One of the main things I’m trying to fix at the moment is the navigation menu
   under the header which has gone from one line to two. This happened after I got
   rid of the header text…
 * Here’s the site so you know what I mean:
 * [http://www.andrecanniere.com/Wordpress/](http://www.andrecanniere.com/Wordpress/)
 * Is there a magic code I can paste in the stylesheet to rectify this??
 *  Thread Starter [acanniere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acanniere/)
 * (@acanniere)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475533)
 * Actually, I think I just solved it by removing the search form from my child 
   theme stylesheet.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475538)
 * Looks like you did indeed fix it

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## Tags

 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [twenty eleven](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twenty-eleven/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-question-2/#post-2475538)
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