Title: CSS Changes via FTP Not Working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# CSS Changes via FTP Not Working

 *  [uk2kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uk2kenya/)
 * (@uk2kenya)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-via-ftp-not-working/)
 * Hi all,
 * I want to make a few minor style changes to the slider on my homepage. The file
   is ‘plugins.css’ which contains the slider css, and is not accessible via the
   the Editor on the WordPress Dashboard.
 * I therefore located the file via ftp in filezilla:
    wp-content > themes > ayohop-
   wp-theme > lib > assets > css > plugins.css
 * I opened up the file and edited the css as necessary, the changes I have made
   are definitely correct as I checked them in the web developer firefox tool. Then
   saved the file in that directory (overwrite the old file).
 * Then, when I load the website, nothing has changed! Furthermore, when I check
   the plugins.css file in firefox web develop to see if the changes have been implemented
   there, the code has also not changed.
 * So, making the changes in FTP has not affected it anywhere else.
 * Why could this be happening?
 * The changes were definitely saved in FTP as I re opened the file to check, and
   they have been saved.
 * This is probably something really stupid on my part, im no expert!
 * If anyone could shed some light id be really grateful.
 * Thanks,
    Dee

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 *  [Praveen a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spraveenitpro/)
 * (@spraveenitpro)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-via-ftp-not-working/#post-4893296)
 * if you are using Google Chrome then can you inspect the element in the developer
   console and see the CSS styling that you have changed ?
 * If it has not been changed then the changes that you uploaded were not saved/
   uploaded or you may also have edited some other file.
 *  Thread Starter [uk2kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uk2kenya/)
 * (@uk2kenya)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-via-ftp-not-working/#post-4893302)
 * Hi spraveenitpro, thanks for the reply!
 * Thats exactly what I did, I checked using firefox to see if the FTP changes had
   been implemented, but they havent.
 * Im pretty sure Ive got the right file, when accessing it via ftp it has the same
   name: plugins.css and the same content (same code, structure, identical!). Surely
   I cant have duplicate files in different places?
 * I have also tried to copy and paste the code from that file into the main child
   theme style.css in the wordpress editor. No luck there either, which is weird
   as I ahve previously done this with woocommerce.css and it has worked.
 *  [Praveen a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spraveenitpro/)
 * (@spraveenitpro)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-via-ftp-not-working/#post-4893466)
 * Then there is a chance that there is some other CSS property that is over riding
   it . This could be either from other CSS or even from other plugins. Disable 
   the theme , set the theme to the default 2014 theme , disable all the plugins
   and then check.

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 * Last reply from: [Praveen a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spraveenitpro/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-changes-via-ftp-not-working/#post-4893466)
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