Go back to Original Style Sheet
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I’ve been playing around with the CSS editor and making some adjustments.
My questions is:
1. When you add new changes do you enter it on a blank css editor page?
2. Or do you add onto the the existing css editor page with the previous changes?
3. Also is there a way to delete the changes I made 5 version ago? B/c I have a slew of revisions and don’t know which changes are which.
4. Also in the end is there way to start from scratch (original style sheet)? I understand none of the revisions can be deleted from the revisions list.
Thanks
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When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing. Read this for more info:
http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/CSS is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results.
To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.
Note that Staff who provide CSS editing support have posted this notice at the support link http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
Support will be closed this Sunday and Monday. It will re-open on Tuesday, February 28th. The forums are open over the break.
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“CSS is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results.”
I want to stay in Imbalance 2 theme. I understand the part of not entering the entire original style sheet.
I know this may be a really stupid question, but my question is: when you enter specific changes into the Editor (blank) does it delete the previous changes?
for example: On a blank editor page,
at 12 pm today I enter CHANGE #1
#text-2 .textwidget div {
top:-15px!important;
}and then at 3pm today on another blank editor page, I enter CHANGE #2
#header-right {
position: relative;
}
#search-2 {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
right: 83px;
}Does this mean that Change #2 deletes Change #1?
Or is it cumulative? That Change #2 is added in addition to change #1.
And specific changes only are deleted or changed if the changes are related to similar items?Thanks
BTW, are you part of WordPress helpdesk?
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Also I’ve tried the preview option to view my changes but the screen does not reflect the changes.
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Hi again,
There are no longer any Volunteers on this peer support forum who assist with CSS editing. Note that Staff who provide CSS editing support have posted this notice at the support link http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/Support will be closed this Sunday and Monday. It will re-open on Tuesday, February 28th. The forums are open over the break.
Staff will respond to you in this thread when they can and it appears that will not be today. Please be patient while waiting.
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When you enter specific changes into the Editor (blank) does it delete the previous changes?
You shouldn’t see a blank editor page each time you visit the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page. When you enter CSS there and save the page, the same CSS should be present then next time you view the CSS editor.
Whatever is present on the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page at any given time is what will be applied to a WordPress.com blog that has a Custom Domain upgrade. Does this answer your question?
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Also I’ve tried the preview option to view my changes but the screen does not reflect the changes.
If the CSS you added doesn’t have any effect on your blog, possible explanations are that you entered CSS that simply doesn’t work for your blog or maybe there is a mistake in your CSS code. When we say that CSS is theme specific, that means that you must enter CSS rules that match the HTML in your theme or it will not work.
You may also be interested in these links:
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/specificity/ -
3. Also is there a way to delete the changes I made 5 version ago? B/c I have a slew of revisions and don’t know which changes are which.
With revisions, you can restore back to a specific point in time or revision. There is not a way to delete the changes just from 5 versions ago, but you can click the Restore link next to any revision to restore the blog to that point in time.
Revisions in CSS work the same was that is described here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
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4. Also in the end is there way to start from scratch (original style sheet)?
Yes, just delete everything in the textarea on the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page and save changes to start over.
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