Can you post a link to your site ? With CSS, it’s not possible to help much without seeing the site live.
It’s not live at the moment, I’m using desktop server and am just creating the site offline before I put it online.
Andrew Nevins
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Try using a browser developer tool for this kind of exploratory CSS work.
I used Google Chrome’s built-in Developer Tool just because I find it particularly easy to expose underlying HTML and CSS as compared to Firebug.
Now that you know the style, from being exposed/added by the Developer Tool, you can add a new style to override it.
You ought to add new styles externally, not within the theme’s files. Changes to the theme’s files will compromise the theme and be compromised when the theme updates.
External changes can be made using a Child Theme or through a plugin that provides Custom CSS functionality.
I recommend using the Jetpack plugin and its Custom CSS functionality to hold your CSS modifications.
Ok, the style.css can be found here
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
We’ll also need the HTML to the problematic webpage.
as I said before, it’s not online yet 🙁 I’m using desktop server to create it and will host it when it’s done.
Do you think I should reset the theme to it’s default and then use a custom css tool?
Yes, definitely don’t edit theme files – custom CSS is a good way to go.
Do you know how I can reset my theme? :/
Replace any files you’ve changed with clean copies from a fresh download of the theme — since you are on local, just copy them to the theme folder, replacing the old ones.
If i delete it on WordPress it deletes the folder on my HDD too but when I install activate it again it’s all the same as before :/
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Could you provide just the HTML for one problematic webpage?
It has completely changed now, I just need to reset this Origami theme which I can’t see to do even if I delete it, it removes the folder but if I reinstall it stays the same as before? There must be some other files holding the settings
OK, I download it from the website, not through WordPress and have reset it. Thank you, I will now try and use the custom css plugin to try and change things.
