mightyjoeape

Then your css did change when you edited it. There’s no upload/download when you edit files through the WordPress Editor. All changes are actually carried out on the relevant files on the server.

I am not sure what you mean by that. The only style.css file that I have on my server in the correct folder marked with the theme’s name is the version I edited. It would make the page look completely different than it does now, so it is obvious that it is not working for whatever reason. I understand that the files that are on my server should be controlling what the page looks like. That is why I am so confused.

Hmm…I don’t know a lot about plug-ins. Do you think that is my problem? I would just as soon not use the wp editor if I can upload my files directly to my server and get the same result- which seems to be the case. Except of course, it won’t work for me. 🙁

Hmmm… well here is the thing: the new version that I have copied and edited (with the same name) is already uploaded to my server. It is not overriding the original theme css file for whatever reason- Did you mean that I have to delete the file found in the wordpress editor?

I don’t have any plug-ins activated. :/

I have this override in my css:

/* @override http://blog.creative-synthesis.com/wp-content/themes/2Exquisite/style.css */

Do you think that could be causing confusion? It’s the only way I could edit the files and see what I was doing…

Okay, I understand that Codex probably has the answers I need somewhere- but quite frankly I don’t understand it. The link that you just sent me has a lot to do with how wordpress decides which files to load- and not so much of how they go into the server, from what I can see.

Yes, I clearly understand now where the files need to be. I said this:

In my server it looks like this

blog.creative-synthesis.com
creative-synthesis.com
wordpress
(and a couple other log/temp directories)

Then in wordpress are several folders but the important part is:
wp-content/themes/2Exquisite/my new files + files from the theme

So why isn’t it working?

If I had that wrong you should have just said so instead of repeating what I told you I had in place.

If you check the source of the WP theme you are using, html comes up- that is what I edited. It worked, so I assume that is an okay thing to do. How else could I get rid of things in the html that I didn’t want showing up? I suppose I could hide them in CSS… but its about the same difference as far as I am concerned. Besides for whatever reason I couldn’t get my header to show up as a background image in CSS, but I put it in an img tag in html and it came up perfectly.

(I didn’t create this theme I edited it like I mentioned.)

A moderator should (please) mark this closed.

Why do you want to close this forum when I haven’t gotten any answers? I am sorry you find me so frustrating, and I do thank you for your time. I am not sure why a volunteer has to answer my questions instead of the moderator…I would think WP would have some of those to come regularly answer difficult questions….

Also, you said:

The css you edited has to replace the syle.css that is within your themes folder. That folder has to be in WP/WP-content/themes.

Well, the original theme came up without me ever putting it in my server. WordPress got in my server when I inserted it so it would update to 2.8- then I added the New files (in the correct order) in the WP directory. That is why I am so confused. I don’t know where that old file is coming from… I am almost 100% positive it’s nowhere on my server.

Yeah the bog is there- the version I EDITED is NOT THERE.

Well I tried that too….I put the files in 2 places just in case.