Recent Updates messing with style css

  • helimom

    (@helimom)


    8 years, 12 months ago

    I keep getting the Accelerate prompt to update to 1.3.2. I’ve done it about 6 times over the last week since it first prompted. I run the update in my dashboard and it appears to work fine. The problem is that every time I update the theme as required…it removes the customized stylesheet.css that I’ve entered. I made complete changes to my style sheet and completely keep it in a word doc. After the updates, I then add my style sheet back so my specific color scheme and extras update the site. I clear cache and the site looks fine. Then in a few days, I get the same theme update prompt and have to start the process all over…….what is going on?

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  • stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    8 years, 12 months ago

    What’s probably happening is that when you copy the entire stylesheet from Word back into style.css, WordPress sees that the version number is older than the current version available in the repository, so WP triggers an update, which then overwrites style.css, causing you to lose all the changes you’ve made, and then you copy the entire stylesheet back from Word into style.css, and so on and so forth.

    Because WP will overwrite your changes upon a theme update, it’s better to use a custom CSS plugin to hold your changes, or if you are using WordPress version 4.7, there is a custom CSS option included at Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS.

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