Bryan Purcell

Nope – you shouldn’t lose anything – I’d make a backup just in case if you’re concerned.

It’s not that complicated, actually, especially the only modification you need is CSS. I’d say Child theme would be the best approach, as it will let you make template changes without disrupting the theme in the future, should you need to.

There are lots of resources available that cover Child Themes, but here’s an example:

create a folder in themes – call it what you’d like your childtheme to be called. This can be (your theme name)-child, or something similar. Inside the Folder, create a single file, called style.css, and put this in it as a template:

/*
 Theme Name:   WP Simple Child Theme
 Theme URI:    http://www.example.com/
 Description:  WP Simple Child Theme
 Author:       TODO
 Template:     wp-simple
 Version:      1.0.0
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  wp-simple-child-theme
*/

@import url("../wp-simple/style.css");

This is a child theme based on a theme called WP Simple.

The name, URL, and description can be called whatever you’d like. There are TWO important pieces that you need to make sure are correct. 1) The “Template” value should be the folder name of your parent theme. (The theme you currently have set up)

2) you need to make sure the @import path matches your folder structure. I’m 99% sure that you’ll only need to replace ‘wp-simple’ with the name of your theme folder.

Give it a shot and let me know how it works!

Bryan

Can you access the new post from the “View Post” link when you click to edit the post (above the post edit view)?

Can you post the template code of the template in which you expect to see the code? point to a live site, and let us know which theme youre using?

thanks!
Bryan

Sorry for not being more clear – correct – don’t edit css in your theme – but the above code should work if you have a custom css panel in your theme, or if you have a custom style.css in a child theme.

What’s the theme? Or a live link?

Firstly – I’d recommend you place your “add_editor_style” call into the ‘admin_init’ action so you can be sure it’s fired at the appropriate time. Secondly, can you verify that your website can access the file at editor-style.css?

Visit: http://<your site url>/wp-content/themes/<your-theme-folder-name>/editor-style.css and make sure it loads? if not – can you verify permissions / file locations?

Another thing to try – load up the new posts admin page (with the editor) and go to view source. you should be able to search the source for “editor-style” and see the one you’re referring to in the tinymce code. If this isn’t found – WP is not able to access that file for some reason.

let me know how that looks.

thanks!
Bryan

Great – glad to here it’s resolved

Sure – you could absolutely position the navigation – but that’s going to break your mobile navigation. I’m curious – why are concerned about editing the header.php file?