Title: Editing CSS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Editing CSS

 *  [Gabi123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabi123/)
 * (@gabi123)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frektar/)
 * (@frektar)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823704)
 * First create a child theme.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabi123/)
 * (@gabi123)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823714)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabi123/)
 * (@gabi123)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823715)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frektar/)
 * (@frektar)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823720)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabi123/)
 * (@gabi123)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823739)
 * awesome! Thank you!!!

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-11/#post-3823739)
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