Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.
For this reason, it is recommended that you consider creating a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.
oh ok. i’m using theme twenty ten, not twenty eleven.
i didnt know that 🙁 do i have to start over with a child theme now??
Yes – I’m afraid so. Or turn your customised Twenty Ten theme into a new standalone theme.
im confused now.
how can i get the original theme template back? do i have download it again? and then everything i changed so far will be gone?
First of all – what do you want to do with your current customised theme? Turn it into a new theme or start all over again with a child theme?
i would prefer not to start all over again, cause i already worked on it for a week.
i just dont want to have any problems in the future.
i dont really know what i have to do now.
In that case, we can turn your copy of Twenty Ten into a new theme. You will first need to switch to another theme. Once that is done, edit style.css in Twenty Ten and change:
Theme Name: Twenty Ten
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable -- make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor, special styles for posts in the "Asides" and "Gallery" categories, and has an optional one-column page template that removes the sidebar.
Author: the WordPress team
Version: 1.2
to something like:
Theme Name: My Theme
Theme URI: Put_your_site_url_here
Description: A custom theme based on Twenty Ten
Version: 1.0
Next, download a new copy of Twenty Ten to your computer, unzip the archive and extract the twentyten folder.
Then FTP into your site (or use whatever file management application your host provides), navigate to wp-content/themes and rename the folder called twentyten to something like mytheme. Finally, upload the new twentyten folder on your computer to wp-content/themes.
If you manage to work through that, you should find that you have a new custom theme in Appearance -> Themes plus a copy of the original Twenty Ten theme. You can now activate your custom theme and amend it further.
where am i gonna change the style.css, after i switched to another theme?
i feel total helpless…
You can still access the customised style.css in Twenty Ten via Appearance -> Editor. Just use the theme dropdown at the top of that page. Or just download the entire theme folder to your computer and make the changes locally.
