CSS Customization – General Question

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  mohamadkarbi · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 4:53 am

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  Greetings all.

  I love Twenty Twelve theme and I did CSS customization of around 5kb to keep my design from my old site before moving to WordPress. Since, the CSS file is applied lastly in a browser, I’d like to ask if it’s a better practice to Strat Fresh (Don’t use the theme’s original CSS.)?

  I’m asking this because in some cases (where the net is very slow), the default theme was loaded first and then my customization were applied. It’s not noticeable though.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 6:23 am

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  Hello
  5k is a very small addition to the overall file size when downloading the sheet. Back in the days of dialup, 5k took less than 10 seconds to download over a clean phone line with a 56k modem. I do not believe anyone will notice the tiny increase in size unless they have a very poor connection.

  The increase in time it takes to process those changes is likewise un-noticeable.

  best,
  dave

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  mohamadkarbi · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 6:45 am

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  Thank you Dave for the reply and notes. It’s clear for me now. As honestly, I didn’t want to start from scratch and build every thing again.

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:19 am

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  You are welcome. Starting from scratch can be so much work – i understand!

  dave

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  mohamadkarbi · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:29 am

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  Can I ask this non-related question? I’ve noticed that most other themes on WordPress.com have: First, Feature picture is a clickable link to the post. Second, there is a link “Older Comments” that is showing above the comments and below them. However, in Twenty Twelve, the feature image isn’t linked nor the above “Older/Newer Comment” link is showing. Do you know if I’m missing something here – specifically in CSS maybe? Sorry if this irrelevant question.

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 9:00 am

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  Hi
  We love good questions so no worries! You have been doing this for some time so you probably already know you could make the post you want to be the “featured image” post sticky by following these instructions:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

  Comments are dynamic. Newer comments are automattically added to the top and older ones pushed to the older comments realm. As you know, you can have comments open in their own page and control how many comments per page you allow

  CSS controls the “look” of the page being viewed, things like the width of a sidebar, size of an image, background colors and images. You need at the least a Premium plan to use custom CSS.

  best,
  dave

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  mohamadkarbi · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 12:15 pm

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  Thank you again Dave. Very helpful information :)