Customizing a theme

  • jwwhitley09

    (@jwwhitley09)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hello there,

    Just curious about the ways to customize (i.e. CSS) a purchased theme. Especially on how to keep the edits once the author updates the theme.

    From what I understand there’s two ways to customize, but I keep running into limitations.

    1. Child theme.
    Limitations: sometimes I have to edit CSS on specific plugin’s or specific pages.

    2. Parent theme.
    Limitations: Updates. etc.

    Is there an easier way? More efficient way to customize?

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Only do that via a child theme. That’s the only way to guarantee that the changes will be kept after the theme updates.

    To make sure that the CSS changes stick, the stylesheet from the child theme needs to be loaded last. That may take some playing around with your action priorities, but that’s how it’s done. If nothing else, there’s always the last resort of using !important on your CSS rules.

    Jacob Peattie

    (@jakept)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    There’s also an Additional CSS area in the Customizer. Unless your CSS changes are extensive, this is the simplest option.

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