Title: style.css and style.min.css child theme ISSUES!
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# style.css and style.min.css child theme ISSUES!

 *  [tribalmaggot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tribalmaggot/)
 * (@tribalmaggot)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-and-stylemincss-child-theme-issues/)
 * Ok so thanks in advance for anyone who tries to help, ive made child themes before
   that work fine but this theme is making me bang my head against the wall.
 * So im making a child theme for my Oxygen theme.
 * The issue im running into is calling both the style.css and the style.min.css
   I think I have it right and when I edit the child theme nothing seems to change…
 * Should I be calling both style sheets for editing this theme?
 * What would the code look like for calling both style sheets using the functions.
   php
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_child_theme_styles', PHP_INT_MAX);
       function enqueue_child_theme_styles() {
           wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css' );
           wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_uri(), array('parent-style')  );
       }
       ```
   

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 *  [amyinro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amyinro/)
 * (@amyinro)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-and-stylemincss-child-theme-issues/#post-5454819)
 * If you want an easy solution 2 steps
 * 1. use this plug-in to create a child theme [https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-configurator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-configurator/)–
   it’s pretty straightforward to use – you can copy whatever files you want to 
   be able to edit into the child theme easily. It also creates a functions file
   that you can add functions too and you will add a function in step 2.
 * 2. Add this to your child theme functions file
 * `add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'load_my_child_styles', 20 );
    function load_my_child_styles(){
   wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme', get_stylesheet_uri() ); }
 * don’t forget to close the php tag on your childs functions php
 * Hope that works for you.
 *  [astandera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astandera/)
 * (@astandera)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-and-stylemincss-child-theme-issues/#post-5454849)
 * Hi, I succesfuly made the oxygen child theme and for me, only one of both theme’s
   CSS stylesheets is enough to load.
    My theme loads ONLY style.min.css and it 
   works fine.
 * The PHP you’ve published comes from WordPress codex and does just this (visible
   in sourcecode here: [http://www.skidestne.cz](http://www.skidestne.cz)):
 *     ```
       <link rel='stylesheet' id='parent-style-css'  href='http://www.skidestne.cz/wp-content/themes/oxygen/style.min.css?ver=4.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
       <link rel='stylesheet' id='child-style-css'  href='http://www.skidestne.cz/wp-content/themes/oxygen-child/style.min.css?ver=4.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
       ```
   
 * Loads original style.min.css AND AFTER it the style.min.css FROM THE CHILD.
    
   It causes that your changes are read AFTER and rewrite the original template’s
   CSS file.
 * If you can make only some CSS changes, the Oxygen theme has Own css field in 
   Look setup – there, if it is not working/rewriting the original css rules, USE`!
   important` declaration, which has the highest priority and is always executed,
   eg:
    `main-header {color: red !important;}`
 * In my opinion – style.css is not compressed (means with white spaces and better
   formatting) and style.min.css is the same but pusshed into “one line” because
   of filesize = pageload time reduction.
 * Regards
    Alois

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-and-stylemincss-child-theme-issues/#post-5454849)
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