YAY! Good job!
You can do most things via the Dashboard of your site – there’s lots of good info here:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/WordPress_Lessons
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
FileZilla itself doesn’t actually edit the page, it shoos you off to software like Notepad to make the modifications.
First consider creating a Child Theme so that you won’t lose your modifications when the theme updates: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
WpyoGi thank you for all your help ! 🙂 you’ve been really effective at answering my questions . thank you !
Great IDEA ! and Thank you Andrew !
Does each theme have its own editor ? or do I edit the one under appearance ?
There’s only one editor and one dashboard – and you work on whichever theme is activated in that space, yes. But one more important thing to know is that you should not edit any theme files (i.e. using Appearance > Editor) because those changes will be overwritten when the theme is updated. If you want to change .php or .css files, you need to use a Child Theme – see: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
Do I have to deactivate the parent and activate the child theme ?
You have to activate the child theme to use it, yes.
if i use filezilla , how would I apply/edit that to the child theme ?
That’s entirely up to you. Personally, I make all changes on a local copy using a text editor and then FTP the changed file to the relevant folder in wp-content/themes. But you can aslo edit the files via Appearance -> Editor if you select the correct theme from the dropdown in the Editor
What text editor would you recommend ?
Also , do I copy and paste whatever is in the parent folder into the child one ?
What text editor would you recommend ?
Personally I use TextPad. Others use Notpad+. It’s very much a personal thing. Any good text editor (preferably with syntax highlighting) will do.
do I copy and paste whatever is in the parent folder into the child one
Nooo. That is exactly the wrong thing to do. The child theme folder should only have a style.css file (containing only your new CSS) and copies of any template files that you have customised.
what about an untouch template ? do I still transfer the pageline theme ?
What’s an untouch template? Do you mean an untouched template file? They stay where they are – in the original parent theme.
I understand , so far I created a Pageline-Child, and then create file name it pagelines.css. Now how do I add ?”
/*
Theme Name: PageLines
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
Author: Your name here
Author URI: http://example.com/about/
Template: PageLines
Version: 0.1.0
*/
