Theme has no CSS, but still works. How do I customize?

  • albertodomca

    (@albertodomca)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hello everyone. I hope I’m in the right place. I’ve been looking at the DW Minion theme to use for my website: http://demo.designwall.com/dw-minion/

    I uploaded the theme, and it made the site I was working on look just like the demo, so that was good. I was hoping to customize it, but for some reason, I can’t see the stylesheet. It’s not in the theme folder either. All I have is this: 

    /*
Theme Name: DW Minion
Theme URI: http://www.designwall.com/wordpress/themes/dw-minion/
Author: DesignWall
Author URI: http://www.designwall.com/
Description: DW Minion is a simple and clean WordPress Blog Theme. This theme is designed which aims for a minimal and simple blog while showing off the most of your content. DW Minion supports responsive design and it’s great to blog anytime anywhere you want. Social sharing is focused and various post formats are supported. The theme is available for free, so grab it and start blogging.
Version: 1.1.7
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Tags: green, light, white, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-width, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready
Text Domain: dw-minion

DW Minion WordPress theme, Copyright (C) 2013 DesignWall
DW Minion WordPress theme is licensed under the GPL v3.0
*/

.sticky {}
.gallery-caption {}
.bypostauthor {}

    Can anyone tell me why this is and what I can do to change it? Thanks in advance.

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Some themes have multiple stylesheets. But you should never modify theme files as your changes will be lost when the theme is updated. Instead use Custom CSS (theme option or plugin) or a child theme –

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    You can COPY the bits of CSS you want to change to the custom CSS and make the changes there. That will override the existing CSS.

    For additional theme help, you should ask the developers as commercial themes aren’t supported on these forums.

    Thread Starter albertodomca

    (@albertodomca)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for answering! I use the Custom CSS theme option exactly the way to said it: I copy bit of CSS I want to change and make the changes there. The problem was I couldn’t find the CSS to copy it from!

    But I think I have fixed the issue now, I have dug around the file a bit more and I believe I found it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I didn’t know themes could have multiple ones.

    Thank you!

    CPC Mike

    (@homergz)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Create a child theme as stated above and add your styles to style.css within your child theme. The main stylesheet is located at assets/css/main.css.

    You should post your support questions in the theme forum:

    https://wordpress.org/support/theme/dw-minion

    @wpyogi – DW Minion is available in the WP repository.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    The best way to find the relevant CSS is by using a browser tool like Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools – it’s unbelievably helpful :). It shows you all the CSS for any element on the page and you can also test changes in the browser before doing them on the site.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    @wpyogi – DW Minion is available in the WP repository.

    Oops, thanks! Since the link above was to the dev site, jumped to (wrong) conclusion!

    Thread Starter albertodomca

    (@albertodomca)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    That does sound incredibly helpful! I’ll check that out, thanks.

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