Which CSS file do i edit, parent or child??

  • DisCreation

    (@discreation)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hey guys,

    I’m using the theme “inferno” which has a parent theme “enigma.” I’m trying to change all the colors on the website. When i go into the editor for the inferno theme it uses @import from the enigma style.css. So does that mean i should actually go into the enigma theme and edit its css file, or is there a different one to use…

    Thanks for the help guys.

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  • Bojan Radonic – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support4)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hey there DisCreation,

    How are you doing today?

    Generally either would be fine, since child theme style.css is loaded after parent theme style.css unless you have the same selector in your child theme CSS should work just fine.

    However, editing theme core file is never a good thing since when ever theme is updated you lose all the changes you made in the files. So the safer way would be to edit your child theme style.css.

    Alternatively you can always install plugin such as this one http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css and add CSS to custom CSS tab. To this one specifically after the plugin is installed and activated you can add CSS to Appearance -> Custom CSS in your admin. By adding this you’ll be safe from theme updates regardless.

    Hope this helps 🙂

    Best regards,
    Bojan

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