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Once I added the footer php file to the Twenty Twelve Child Theme rather than pasting it in the child theme css :)it did indeed work!

So thank you to all who helped with this thread – I do appreciate it!

Hi Samuel

I will try re-insertng it in a particular spot and then post it here to see if my error is obvious to you

since my child css doesn’t have that much on it yet I will include it all and bold the area where Esme’s code was inserted…thank you in advance for taking a look at it

/*
Theme Name: Twentytwelve Child
Description: Child theme for the twentytwelve theme
Author: Danielle Kreps
Template: twentytwelve
*/

@import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

.entry-content p, .entry-summary p, .comment-content p {
line-height: 1.51429;
margin: 0 0 1.71429rem;
}

<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* Contains footer content and the closing of the
* #main and #page div elements.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Twelve
* @since Twenty Twelve 1.0
*/
?>
</div><!– #main .wrapper –>
<footer id=”colophon” role=”contentinfo”>
<div class=”site-info”>
<?php do_action( ‘twentytwelve_credits’ ); ?><p>Copyright 2012 <?php bloginfo(‘Wysdom Tree’);?></p>
” title=”<?php esc_attr_e( ‘Semantic Personal Publishing Platform’, ‘twentytwelve’ ); ?>” rel=”generator”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?>
</div><!– .site-info –>
</footer><!– #colophon –>
</div><!– #page –>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

hopefully it is something quite simple and I do appreciate the help,
thanks, Danielle

Based on Esme‘s advice to diddlyidi have inserted footer php into my childtheme and attempting to follow the rest of her advice

<p>Copyright 2012 <?php bloginfo(‘Name’);?></p>

but not sure where to insert this in the footer php pasted below

<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* Contains footer content and the closing of the
* #main and #page div elements.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Twelve
* @since Twenty Twelve 1.0
*/
?>
</div><!– #main .wrapper –>
<footer id=”colophon” role=”contentinfo”>
<div class=”site-info”>
<?php do_action( ‘twentytwelve_credits’ ); ?>
” title=”<?php esc_attr_e( ‘Semantic Personal Publishing Platform’, ‘twentytwelve’ ); ?>” rel=”generator”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentytwelve’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?>
</div><!– .site-info –>
</footer><!– #colophon –>
</div><!– #page –>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

also, does the name of my site Wysdom Tree fit into her line of code here: (‘Name’)

Thanks for your help,
Danielle

Thanks Andrew (again :))…just checked that link out…can you tell me if one modifies the footer by writing a general rule in the childtheme css below the import rule or would a whole section have to be pasted in…just going to check out the twenty twelve parent theme right now to see if I can figure out where this is.
Thanks

Well, if you can see the changes that’s wonderful lolol…I, for some reason, cannot but I will figure this out lolol…I did clear the browser cache in internet options…is there one that I’m missing or is this not the browser cache? (I really am a novice!yikes!)
that is the last question I will ask you 🙂

and I have to say that having the line spacing changed (or at least knowing how to do it) now enables me to go forward with writing the website which is really a priority for me right now…I only give this information because I wish for you to have a sense of how invaluable your help has been

thanks again,
danielle

Hi,

I did change the value to 1.31429 in the css but nothing changed so I switched it back so you could at least examine your original code to see if I imputted it correctly…

I didn’t change the margin value but perhaps both figures have to be changed?…I will wait to see if you respond to this question before I try changing the value again

thanks for your time

Dear WPyogi,

sooooooooooooooooooo grateful for your response!!!!!

hadn’t yet written anything because the what looks to be almost triple default line spacing of 2012 looks ridiculous..can’t make the changes until later this evening but wanted to thank you right away…

once I am able to adjust the line spacing and get some substance down on paper (lol) I will follow your suggestions for learning how to use firebug as I know there are few other changes I would like to implement

thanks again,
Danielle

Thanks Esme,

Regarding the line height, after trying to change the line spacing in the css unsuccessfully in several themes I finally settled on 2012 theme and knew I would have to see it though to the end with my learning curve. At first I wanted to change the line height in the parent theme but at Andrew Nevins advice I learned how to make the child theme first. Now, I understand that I can make a line spacing rule in the child theme to override the parent theme, however, I would only want the rule to affect the content and not other areas…just sure where to start and if I can figure out how to use firebug do I have to import all of the parent theme stylesheet into the child theme stylesheet so the changes won’t be overridden in an update.

Appreciate any help here but am currently off to work,
Thanks,
Danielle