Editing original stylesheet

stephanieharsh · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm
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Is there any way to edit the original style sheet rather than adding your customizations to the existing?

I ask only because I don’t like that my site loads the original CSS then loads the edits I’ve made. I hope that makes sense.

I swear there used to be a way to do this, when you could go right into the theme’s style sheet and go to town, but I can’t seem to find this option anymore.

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timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm
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Read the warning justpi posted here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/initial-start-up-for-css-stylesheet-editing-on-wordpresscom?replies=18#post-1155343
hfzrhmn · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 11:31 pm
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The #1 reason why you must never (yes, never) edit the original stylesheet is that when the theme is updated, your edit will be gone and automatically overwritten.

If you’re on self-hosted WordPress.org, it might not be a problem because you can choose not to update the theme. But here on WordPress.com we never know when a theme is being updated, and when it is, it will be done automatically. This is likely why we can’t edit original CSS here.
timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 11:34 pm
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@hfzrhmn
Thanks so much for your follow-up response.
hfzrhmn · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 11:39 pm
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You’re welcome :)
auxclass · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 11:52 pm
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Also I think we also all share the same CSS file / code for a specific theme – so if the original was edited it would change the code for everyone – so thus the last scanned rules
stephanieharsh · Member · Mar 5, 2014 at 1:10 am
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I appreciate the responses very much.
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 5, 2014 at 6:51 pm
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@auxclass said

Also I think we also all share the same CSS file / code for a specific theme…

Yes, that is correct and why users can’t edit the original files.
auxclass · Member · Mar 5, 2014 at 6:59 pm
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Good news about shared files – make changes all across the world in one “enable” keystroke – bad news – make changes all across the world in one ‘enable” keystroke :)

Morning Morning Richard – hope all is well your way & that you are getting some interesting projects
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 5, 2014 at 10:49 pm
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Coming back from a cold/flu that has hung on way too long, @auxclass, but other than that, doing well. Hope the same is true for you.
auxclass · Member · Mar 6, 2014 at 12:38 am
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had some virus thing that sort of drug on and on – other than that mostly normal – they don’t call things up here Rain City for nothing

take care
stephanieharsh · Member · Mar 6, 2014 at 5:19 am
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Okay, okay, I get it.

So I checked the option to replace existing CSS and then copied/pasted the style sheet of the theme I’m using (Circa). Of course that produced the expected results… and turned the site all wonky. Is there any way to do that successfully?

I’m not trying to break the internet here, it just drives me nuts that the site has to load 98 different fonts before finally getting to… wait for it… Verdana.
auxclass · Member · Mar 6, 2014 at 6:11 am
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Clear the box you pasted the pile of code into – put ONLY the code you want to change in the edit box – Do Not put the entire style sheet into the editing box

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