Title: Styles are gone?? Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Styles are gone?? * [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/) * Something happened to my WordPress site. It’s like it isn’t loading my stylesheets anymore or something…the color is different, my header is completely gone, the pages are all still there, but the content is not. What do I have to do to get my site back?? I still have all my code and a backup, but it’s not displaying as it was before. What could have gone wrong? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [Craig Ralston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craig-ralston/) * (@craig-ralston) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281776) * Can you provide a link to the site? * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281856) * fitnesstraingingelite.com * It’s still loading style.css and the bootstrap stylesheet, but this is really weird. A friend of mine said that sometimes WordPress automatically updates and causes things to break, but this is pretty extreme to have the entire nav bar gone, background image, colors, etc. * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281859) * It’s not loading my custom.css sheet anymore. What could have caused that and how do I get it to load again? * [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * (@questas_admin) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281861) * Did you have a child theme? Or did you edit the theme’s style sheet? * Link isn’t working. * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281862) * I edited custom.css which is supposed to override style.css, but now isn’t loading. * [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * (@questas_admin) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281864) * Have you looked at it with firebug or another developer tool? Can’t look at it because the link you provided doesn’t exist. * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281865) * Yea, Firebug verified that custom.css isn’t loading. Sorry I misspelled the URL it’s [fitnesstrainingelite.com](http://fitnesstrainingelite.com) * [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * (@questas_admin) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281866) * I figured it out when I looked closely at the name. Do you have a backup of the site,AND within your custom css do you still have your css customization available to copy? If so, copy the css snippets you created and save them in a text file on your computer. * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281867) * Yes, I have backups of both. Do you know how I can tell it to load custom.css again? * [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * (@questas_admin) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281868) * OK you have a free WooTheme “Wootique” which doesn’t offer any support other than the documentation here > [http://www.woothemes.com/products/wootique/](http://www.woothemes.com/products/wootique/) Question: Is the custom css you are using a plugin? If so is it active? If not: * I am not familiar with their themes, but you have a couple options. 1: Read the documentation on their site and see if it provides an answer. * 2: Create a Child Theme and use that for your special customizations. * The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before: [http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial](http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial) * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281869) * have you checked out Custom CSS Manager plugin: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/) * Thread Starter [michfball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michfball/) * (@michfball) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281870) * No, I didn’t use a plugin. I made my edits to custom.css in a text editor. * [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * (@questas_admin) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281871) * You can try out #Tara’s option if you don’t want to create a child theme, Your Menus are located in your Dashboard > Appearance > Menus :: You may want to make sure your menu is set to the proper location, Probably the TOP PRIMARY MENU. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel](http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel) Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Styles are gone??’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 13 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styles-are-gone/#post-6281871) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics