Title: Created style.css – now what?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Created style.css – now what?

 *  Resolved [kevos art](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevos-art/)
 * (@kevos-art)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-stylecss-now-what/)
 * Hey guys, I’ve just created a new website using Bluehost and I’ve also created
   a child theme so I can customize my site. In my file manager I made a style.css
   file and a functions.php file. So, my question is basically, now what?
 * I understand that in order to begin customizing the theme I will be using style.
   css, but what about things like header.php and footer.php? I’ve seen a few different
   sources saying these files are needed and other sources saying you only need 
   style.css, and long story short is I’m extremely confused about where to go now.
 * I guess, for a starting point, here’s my website: [http://www.kevinhughesart.com](http://www.kevinhughesart.com).
   I want to get rid of the grey box around my name up there in the top left corner.
   How would I do this?

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 *  [christomwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christomwebdesign/)
 * (@christomwebdesign)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-stylecss-now-what/#post-6935966)
 * First reading this wouldnt hurt
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * and heres the css code to get rid of that gray background
 *     ```
       .site-branding {
           background: none !important;
       }
       ```
   
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-stylecss-now-what/#post-6935970)
 * The various files like `header.php` and `footer.php` only need to be copied across
   to your child theme if you want to edit them. If you don’t need to do anything
   with those files, leave them where they are in the parent theme. As you’ve read,
   the only thing that you really need for the child theme is `style.css` and ‘functions.
   php`. Everything else is optional.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/created-stylecss-now-what/#post-6935970)
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