i want to make some changes into my wordpress css file. i downloaded the style.css and other css file via ftp and made all the changes into the codes i wanted to. I uploaded the files and replace it with the other files. I waited for some time to take it affect but nothing happened, i left it and open my site the other day but the things were still same, no changes. I was using the WP Minify cache plugin. I even deleted it and re upload the css files again but still no changes. I tried out so many things but no success.
I than changed the name of the theme main directory via ftp, it help me a bit and made me happy for awhile, all the changes appeared. I again needed some changes in css files but unfortunately again suffering the same process. Please help :(
P.S. No theme is taking the effects of modifications in the css files codes. i tried different themes, but same results. Even if i delete the style.css nothing happened, but when i delete the entire directory of that theme then blank white page appear on my website.
It doesn't sound like you activated the new theme from your administration panel.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Themes#Selecting_the_Active_Theme
When using any cache plugins you should delete its cache when you do any changes to the website. Have you already done that?
Are there any other css files being loaded after style.css that may alter what you are trying to change?
It's generally not a good idea to edit the themes style.css directly b/c when you upgrade that theme you will lose all of your customizations.
Doesn't your theme have some place for custom CSS? Some themes have it in Appearance >> Theme Options, or something of that nature. What theme is it? Do you have a framework, or child themes? More info needed ... but every theme has a spot for custom css; as was mentioned, it's not best practice to make your modifications in the actual main theme stylesheet, due to updates, etc. ... and anything in the custom css section overrides the default theme stylesheet.
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I'm breaking my head, to change the size of my wordpress blog logo, because they say it is for the css style sheet, but any changes I make to the style sheet do not apply to my blog, even if I delete all style sheet my blog does not change, can anyone help me?
There are several things to consider:
If the changes you want to make are minor, just use theme editors css and js injection mechanics.
Second most common thing is syntax, to counter that just edit your current active themes style file and enter something like body background-color:{ red !important} to check if the changes are being made. Then check with your browsers developer tools to check if the changes are being made in the style file.
If you are using some caching plugin, turn it off until you are done working on the site changes.
Check if you are editing the right theme. You should check what theme is active in your themes section of the wordpress.
In the case where you are using a child theme and you are editing child themes style.css file, you should first enqueue the file. More info on that here
If you are hosting your website not on the shared hosting, but on private server, you should check your file permissions.
Hope this helps.
I need to change/remove some CSS call links. I can see them in View Page Source. How do I actually get to them to make the changes? In other words, where are they?
Might be This is because of cache plugin in WordPress site. Try to disable CSS minify setting from the plugin.
You can not change those links or remove it but after disabling minify setting you can modify your CSS. You can then find your correct CSS path in view source.
They are either in your theme or in plugins. Most cases it is in themes. open your theme search for the name...there will be a function enque_script with having those file names as parameter. comment the function which is including your unwanted file.
I am wondering why I am not unable to make changes; I already tried several things yet, I don't seem to be able to update the CSS, the following I did already:
There is no Editor, so I am unable to make changes via there.
I am an Administrator and have access to cPanel.
I made changes via ../wp-content/theme/my-theme/style.css and no changes were made.
I empty my cache via plugin and hard reload my Chrome, Firefox and Safari. And no changes were made.
Is there any other solutions? I already found the file which contains all the styles. I would try to add my own class, and see if I am to see if there is any effect.
First thing first, From cPanel you can navigate to your website from the fileManager, use it to make code changes and then save them. You need to clear the cache everytime you make changes (i usually do it from the browser (in chrome, open the dev console, then long press on the refresh button and select the bottom one)
If the changes are still not showing on your site, I think that maybe you are editing the wrong CSS? Is this your theme and are you 100% sure you are editing the right file and, for example, it's not overwritten by a child theme or something else?
If you are using any framework, maybe your property is overwritten by your framework (for example, by bootstrap). To check this, open the console or try to add !important in your CSS file.
Just as an example, when I develop a theme I leave the root style.css with only the theme definitions, and then I create different stylesheets in a different folder. This leads me to the next question: are you enqueue your file correctly? is it even loaded by WordPress?
to check this I usually inspect the code in and search for the id of the file I enqueued from my functions.php.
Unfortunately, without more details, this is the only things I could think of when developing and WordPress theme and make changes from cPanel. Hope some of this can actually help.
Please check following options
Permission of file at ../wp-content/theme/my-theme/style.css.
Grab the css and open in Dream-viewer or sublime is there any css syntax issue.
Also the path of style.css in header is show same by view source.
Or
Even you can use the plugins which allow to add custom css without toching the server check this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/
First I take a copy of the header.php before I made changes.
After I made changes to the header like the default image and header text through the dashboard
I reopened the header.php and find no changes there.
My assumption is when changes being made through Dashboard then dynamically the corresponding php files would updated. No?
If not, how would be changes in Dashboard be reflected in php file?
If you're making your changes to the header.php files via Appearances >> Editor >> Header.php ... then of course you're altering your header.php file.
You can also accomplish this by FTPing the file or using your server's control panel.
But before you make all these changes to your core WordPress files, I'd have to ask -- "why"? It's never (recommended) to make changes to your core WordPress files. This is because when you go to update your WordPress the next time an update comes out, you'll lose all your changes ... so you'll have to keep a changelog of your edits or end up with a dinosaur version of WP in the future.
If your theme doesn't give you an opportunity to do so alter the header in other manners, perhaps a plugin is a better solution. Or perhaps using custom CSS is a better solution if that fits your need. What are you trying to accomplish? Why would it need a moderation of a WP core file? Most likely, there are other ways to accomplish your goal(s).
I just started using Wordpress 3.0 to get a simple blog up and going. For now I am working with the default theme "Twenty Ten".
I want to make a simple change:
I'd like to modify the layout of the bloginfo( 'name' ), bloginfo( 'description' ), and php header_image() that appears at the top of the blog.
So, under Appearance, Editor, I select Header.php and I can see how this is being rendered.
It appears I can just modify this to my liking and I am good to go. (Correct?)
If so, my question is: is it considered proper practice to modify the html in header.php?
It seems to me that this is a bit dangerous, for example when it comes time to upgrade that same theme. How do I know which php files I have applied customizations to? Say I modify 6 php files, then an upgrade of the theme comes along...how does one handle re-applying these changes to the upgraded theme?
Is it a total "do over"?
Is there a better way to handle this scenario?
Maybe some themes are more powerful than others and can handle this type of customization more flexibly, and I should be searching for such a theme? Or, is there a reasonably proper and safe way to do this by directly editing the php files?
Child theme, child theme, child theme. Create a new folder in themes (name it whatever you want. Go crazy. As long as you don't name it twentyten). Create a style.css file in that directory and copy the whole style.css file from twentyten into it. Then, change the theme name in the css headers and add this line after the tags:
Template: twentyten
Then copy the header.php file over to another file in your directory, and edit to your heart's content. If twentyten ever gets updated, you'll get the benefit of those updates (unless they're in css or the header) without losing your changes.
Yes, you can edit the theme to your liking. I think it's common practice (however, I've always just created my own themes from scratch). Just give credit where it's due and don't pass it off as your own original work.
To avoid over-writing your customized theme when an upgrade comes out, you could save the customized one to a different folder in the themes directory with a different name, like Twenty Ten Customized. You can then copy or re-do the changes in the upgraded theme if you think the upgrades are worth the trouble. There's no rule that says you have to have the latest version of the theme, after all.
There might be other themes that allow a high degree of customization without editing the php, but most of the time you'd have to edit the php I'd think. (but I'm no pro theme developer.)
I would do as Benny suggested and rename the theme so that it isn't overwritten when you upgrade Wordpress.
I would not worry about updates to the actual theme because I don't think those ever really happen. The last Wordpress default theme was Kubrick and, to my knowledge, it rarely was updated and most updates were minor and went unnoticed by most users. If you go about customizing your theme, I don't think Wordpress is going to update the Twenty Ten theme to the point where you would ever wish that you hadn't edited the source because you wanted to upgrade to the new default theme.
If you don't want to actually edit any of the theme files, check out something like Thesis that allows you to customize most things from the admin.
Note: I'm not aware of a free theme that offers a lot of customization options through the admin panel, but there might be something if you check around for a while.
If I really had to stop automatic updates on my Wordpress theme, I'd do exactly what Kris + Chris Schmitz suggested (i.e. rename the theme differently). Modify header information in the style.css file in your theme's root to do this.
Personally, however, if the theme already works for me out of the box, I think I'd most probably already be fine with that. My website's running, the theme's working, and updating my theme may just break my site in ways I don't know.
I'd probably update it only for major security updates, but I'd probably be reading a changelog for that. But if I was doing that, I'd know what files exactly were modified, and I can just manually do it myself. Sounds like a lot of work, but better than my site buckling on me by some unknown cause.
If you do as Benny suggests and create a renamed copy of the default theme, you can use a free diff tool to compare the directories when an upgrade comes out. I'd use Meld ( http://meld.sourceforge.net/ ) to do a three-way directory comparison (Original theme, upgraded theme, modified copy) to determine if any changes have been made that impact the parts you changed, as well as to merge the upgrade changes into your modified files.