Title: updates_CSS
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# updates_CSS

 *  Resolved [ge53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ge53/)
 * (@ge53)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/)
 * Helo-my site “automatically” updates and then i lose all the CSS /customizing
   i did –is there any way to retrieve the earlier version??
    thank yoi

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917810)
 * How did you originally do the customizations?
 *  Thread Starter [ge53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ge53/)
 * (@ge53)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917813)
 * hanks for responding!–i went to “appearance” on the left-hand side of the dashboard,
   altered the “Stylesheet.css” and the “Visual Editor Stylesheet (editor-style.
   css​)​” of the theme I’m using…
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917814)
 * Oh, and then your theme was updated, right?
 * Theme updates completely replace files, and you had modified the files directly,
   so those modified files were replaced with the newest version of the theme’s 
   unmodified files.
 * Do you have a backup you can restore from? If not, I’m afraid those changes are
   gone, though you might want to ask your hosting provider if they have a backup.
 * For theme modifications, we recommend creating a child theme, which is basically
   just the changed files of a parent theme, so the parent theme can be updated 
   without affecting what’s in your child theme. Here are some guides on that:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * [http://themeshaper.com/modify-wordpress-themes/](http://themeshaper.com/modify-wordpress-themes/)
 * I also recommend keeping regular backups: [https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
 *  Thread Starter [ge53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ge53/)
 * (@ge53)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917815)
 * that is painful…thank you, will do in future..
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917816)
 * You’re welcome, and sorry for the trouble!

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates_css/#post-6917816)
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