So you downloaded a spiffy new theme from a template club, however you are leery about making too many customizations to it for fear of loosing them anytime a theme update is released. Well fear now more, I will show you how to make unlimited customizations to ANY WordPress theme using custom.css
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Step 1. Create a folder called “CUSTOM” in your themes directory
Step 2. Create a file called “CUSTOM.CSS” and a folder called “IMAGES” inside of “CUSTOM”
Step 3. Open “HEADER.PHP” and place this code just before </header>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme/custom/custom.css" media="screen" />
Step 4. Upload the “CUSTOM” folder to your server inside /wp-content/themes/your-theme/
Step 5. Make modifications to “CUSTOM.CSS” and upload to: /wp-content/themes/your-theme/custom/
As you can see, the links have changed colors thanks to custom.css
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I was going to post a question, but I’ll post a comment b/c I played around and figured it out.
I actually always move my theme stylesheet out of my theme folder and into my root folder, so I end up with the link url ‘css/style.css’. I do this b/c I install WP in a subfolder in order to help hide wp-admin and wp-login from snoopers because they don’t know the subfolder’s name or thus the url to get to domain.com/subfolder/wp-login.php.
Well, I figured out that you can replicate this two ways: 1.) Create a link url for custom.css (css/custom.css) and place the link url BELOW the link url for the original stylesheet (css/style.css) and any styles in the latter will override the former. Or 2.) You can add a class or ID to the body tag (e.g. .custom) and then add .custom before any css rules that you want to change. This latter way is particularly useful, if like me, you combine & minify css into one stylesheet using w3 total cache. Styles with ‘.custom whatever’ are more specific so they override the original style.
BTW, do you think there is much likelihood that WordPress will update the 2010 theme much or ever?
(Serious question. I like to use it as my base for designs, but I don’t know if or how many times they updated Kubrik. If they don’t update it much, I’d just prefer to modify style.css itself b/c it is always less code, fewer rules to process, and as fast as absolutely possible.)