Title: Theme doesn’t update when edited
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme doesn’t update when edited

 *  Resolved 801987
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/)
 * I’ve been building a blog on my PC to upload to a server when its completed (
   I’m so close), but one thing just started happening; when I edit the theme in
   the Theme Editor the blog doesn’t change one bit. I tried to change the backround
   image (first I just changed the source in the script but that didnt work, so 
   I took my own image and named it what the stock image used to be and no luck 
   either), I also tried to change the message that appears when no results are 
   found through the search box, and even though its edited in the script, the stock
   one still appears.
 * I’m using WP 2.6, but I had no luck with 2.3.1 either 🙁

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 *  [maisteriharju](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maisteriharju/)
 * (@maisteriharju)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821902)
 * Have you emptied the browser cache?
 *  Thread Starter 801987
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821903)
 * I did, but still no luck :(((((((((((((((((((
 *  [maisteriharju](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maisteriharju/)
 * (@maisteriharju)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821906)
 * Are you sure you uploaded your own image over the old image? Doublecheck the 
   url of the background-image and the image you have uploaded.
 * Also check if the background-image has been coded twice in the CSS. There may
   be some other background-image code overriding the your background-image code.
   But I doubt this if you have uploaded your own image over the old one.
 * If you have some other browser, try to see with that if the background-image 
   changes. Sometimes browser cache is very difficult to get emptied.
 *  Thread Starter 801987
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821910)
 * I did all that you said and its still not working.
 * Just a reminder though, its not just the picture thing, its everything I change
   not showing up. Font colors and sizes, picture borders, etc.
 *  [RoseCitySister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosecitysister/)
 * (@rosecitysister)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821911)
 * Check and make sure you’re making your changes in style.css, the main stylesheet,
   and not rtl.css – I was doing this once and driving myself insane until I noticed
   what I was doing…
 *  Thread Starter 801987
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-821914)
 * OMG it worked 😀
 * Thank you so much for helping me out, but for some reason wordpress didn’t display
   the style.css file in the theme editor, just all the others.
 * Thanks again though, I thought I was going to die trying to fix that damned thing.
 *  [RoseCitySister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosecitysister/)
 * (@rosecitysister)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-doesnt-update-when-edited/#post-822130)
 * My pleasure! Glad you got it together.

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