How to keep colors

  • JacobKelly

    (@jacobkelly)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    I am trying to set up my husband’s landscaping business site. The name is All Things Green and I’ve changed everything from blue to green several times. But when I go back later on to work on it (several days later or something) it keeps changing back to blue later on. I don’t really want blue for a company whose name is All Things Green. What am I doing wrong? I don’t want to pay to run Genesis and buy a child theme. Is that the issue? This is all pretty new to me, so easy explanations are appreciated.
    Thanks!

    Here is the site: http://allthingsgreenlandscape.com

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  • site608

    (@site608)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    What elements are you changing to green and where are you changing them? In the Theme options or in a stylesheet?

    Thread Starter JacobKelly

    (@jacobkelly)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I want to change all of the blue elements to green: Text, menu bar, everything. I’ve changed them in the stylesheet each time and it works, but I don’t know if the theme keeps getting update and then gets rid of what I’ve done.

    site608

    (@site608)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    There was a new update to the theme today so that would overwrite the parent stylesheet. Have you created a child stylesheet? It will not get overridden by updates.

    Thread Starter JacobKelly

    (@jacobkelly)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    How do I do that? Or can you direct me to a tutorial? Thanks so much for your help. I wondered if that’s what was happening. I have a blog with a child theme and Genesis framework, but didn’t know I could do that with a free one. His (my husband’s) site is not on Genesis.

    site608

    (@site608)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Since you are using accesspress-lite theme, go to dashboard appearance/edit CSS.
    You can make all your changes here and they will not be overridden by theme updates.

    An alternative is to create the child stylesheet on the server as documented here:
    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes

    Hope that works for you.

    Thread Starter JacobKelly

    (@jacobkelly)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve never made changes through edit CSS how do I tell it to do that? Do I just copy and past the whole stylesheet there and then make the edits (change the color to #339933 (green)?

    site608

    (@site608)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Yes. You can do that or better still would be to just copy the elements you are changing. Like to change the menu background color and border bottom, change the colors below:

    .main-navigation {
    border-bottom: 3px solid #04A3ED;
    background: #00ABFF;
    }

    Thread Starter JacobKelly

    (@jacobkelly)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks a lot. I’ll give that a try.

    Theme Author Access Keys

    (@access-keys)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Jacobkelly,
    Has your problem been solved ? Please let us know if we can help you with anything.
    Thanks,

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