Title: Edited Child Theme Rolling Back
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Edited Child Theme Rolling Back

 *  [khoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khoop/)
 * (@khoop)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-child-theme-rolling-back/)
 * Hi, I’m very new to wordpress – sorry if I’m doubling up on an old post but I
   can’t quite seem to find the answers I’m looking for.
 * I’m working with Cherry theme and a child theme that I bought. I realise that
   seems silly with so many great free themes out there but I liked a few things
   in it and was interested to see how they worked…. but now it’s left me with some
   new questions!
 * The child theme has two css files – main-style.css and style.css.
 * I’ve edited the main-style.css file to adjust the general styling of the site
   and have also added one or two new things in the style.css where there was a 
   note to add any new things.
 * Now I’ve noticed that the site (set up locally for now), rolls back to the original
   child theme template’s css every now and again. From what I’ve read I think I
   understand that’s why you shouldn’t edit a parent theme’s css but I’m wondering
   what I’m doing wrong with the child theme? Should I not be doing this? Or is 
   there something I should take out of the main-style.css file (there is some info
   in the header I’m wondering about taking out but I’m not game – I’ve copied it
   in below if it helps)?
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../CherryFramework/
   style.css”);
 * I’m also wondering if I would be better off to take the files out of the child
   theme I bought and have edited and create my own new child theme with the adapted
   css file?
 * Any thoughts or directions to another thread would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [khoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khoop/)
 * (@khoop)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-child-theme-rolling-back/#post-5157987)
 * One more thing. I’ve been reading up on child themes and realise that the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“../CherryFramework/style.css”); is important but still am not having any
   luck from it rolling back to the original css.
 * I’ve noticed that it seems to roll back as soon as I go to the themes page in
   the appearance panel.
 * Any ideas? Is it something to do with working locally?
 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-child-theme-rolling-back/#post-5157990)
 * Working locally is not an issue.
    Strictly speaking it is contrary to this support
   forum policy to support commercial themes, this effort and revenue belongs with
   the authors.
 * It is unfortunate that in this case there are no grand-child themes.
    Presumably
   one of the actions of activating this theme is to install the child, this is 
   clobering your changes.
 * What does the theme author say ?
 *  Thread Starter [khoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khoop/)
 * (@khoop)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-child-theme-rolling-back/#post-5157992)
 * Oh thank you for letting me know about the that part of the policy – makes perfect
   sense and apologies! I’m only new to wordpress and appreciate the heads up – 
   I won’t take up any more time 🙂
 * I’ll see if the author can help and in the meantime I’ve just installed the Custom
   CSS Manager plugin and it seems to be working.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edited-child-theme-rolling-back/#post-5157992)
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