Title: Customizing theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Customizing theme

 *  [TCooper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcooper/)
 * (@tcooper)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-theme-3/)
 * I am trying to customize the Pilot Fish theme and I just cannot get my changes
   to take effect.
 * I created a child theme and put a style.css file in it importing the css from
   the Pilot Fish theme but no changes are happening. I have been using Firebug 
   to discover the code that I want to change and my changes look great in Firebug.
   However, when I copy the code into my child theme style.css file nothing happens.
   No change. I have even gotten help from a professor and he put in a new style.
   css file and made changes to the CSS and nothing happened for him either. (I 
   can make changes to the Pilot Fish style.css and that works but won’t I lose 
   my changes when the theme developer updates the theme if I do that?)
 * I hope that there is a simple solution for why I can’t customize this theme.
   (
   I do not want to change to another theme because I like this one!)
 * Oh, I have not been able to put a duplicate of the functions.php file into my
   child theme folder either. When I do, it breaks my site.
 * I sure hope Danni or someone else who has experience with this theme and can 
   help me out.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Theme Author [Daniel Zhao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danni1990/)
 * (@danni1990)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-theme-3/#post-3183347)
 * maybe you need to put “!important” after the css you added, to overwrite the 
   parent one.
 *  [sarchka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarchka/)
 * (@sarchka)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-theme-3/#post-3183348)
 * I had this issue when I first tried creating the child theme for this. The issue(
   for me) was with the name in the template field. At first I copied the name from
   the original CSS: Theme Name: Pilot_Fish
 * But, I ran into the issue you are describing. I was able to get it to work by
   changing the name to: Template: pilot-fish
 * I hope this helps. This is a fantastic theme, I really love it, and have had 
   no trouble after that initial hiccup.

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 * Last reply from: [sarchka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarchka/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-theme-3/#post-3183348)
 * Status: not resolved