Editing CSS

  • Gabi123

    (@gabi123)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I am new to WordPress and learning a beginner in CSS.

    I installed the theme Oxygen and I am trying to edit the CSS. However, when i make changes to the CSS through the editor they don’t know up. Can’t change the color, positioning, size of images…anything.

    So far I have:
    1.changed the ftp to 774 in order to edit the css.
    2.downloaded a css editor plugin which allows me to edit the css bit by bit. These changes show up on my site, however the actual CSS goes away after I save and x out
    3.I have tried deleting cache on my wp site and deleting my browsers cache.
    4. I then went into my php to see if I could edit the size of images or anything there…and that doesn’t show up either.

    Nothing seems to be working. Does anyone have advice?

    Thanks!

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  • frektar

    (@frektar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    First create a child theme.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Then modify the css in the new style.

    A lot of themes today come with an editor in the admin panel. I stick to child themes, but to each their own.

    Thread Starter Gabi123

    (@gabi123)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    WOW! ok i can edit the CSS in my child theme but now I have another question.

    What if I want to edit the php? In my child theme editor there are no php templates to edit.

    thank you soooo much!

    Thread Starter Gabi123

    (@gabi123)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Actually it looks like I can just download the php files from the parent and then upload them into the child and the child’s php’s will take preference over the parents.

    Not sure if that is correct though.

    Thanks again. You solved a huge headache.

    frektar

    (@frektar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Anything in the parent theme you want to modify, make a copy of that file and put it in the child theme. Then edit the copy and the changes will take precedence. The only tricky file is the functions.php

    Thread Starter Gabi123

    (@gabi123)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    awesome! Thank you!!!

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