I somehow removed my sites ability to read it's own css.
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Hi everyone!
I recently was previewing themes and managed to click activate on accident. This wiped out my theme and replaced it with another.
However, my site can no longer read a theme’s CSS. The theme preview works, but once activated, my site renders without them and looks like a plain text geocities website. Does anyone know what might cause this? If I go to the customize tab, it also looks fine.
So…I’d like to get this site working asap It’s a company blog I have broken! Any ideas on restoring the original theme or getting any other theme to work?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Well, first go to Appearance > Themes, activate the theme you were using (Enterprise) and see if things get back to normal.
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This is done….on preview it looked correct, but the actual site still is not displaying any CSS.
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Go to Appearance > Custom Design > CSS. Is the option “Don’t use the theme’s original CSS” in the black overlay sidebar checked? If so, uncheck it and click Save.
How did I? Google cache.
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justpi…thanks, you got me along the right path and I figured this one out! For anyone in the future, the update under “April 11” was key.
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I can see CSS displaying at http://blog.exelate.com/ right now. Is the CSS working for you now as well? If it isn’t, are you behind a company firewall or some other network that might be blocking just the CSS in your case?
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Whoops! I got it working an hour or two ago and forgot to update!
For anyone in the future wondering, my issue was found by going directly to here:
[YOUR BLOGS URLS]/wp-admin/themes.php?page=editcss
which allowed to me see and edit the CSS I needed to directly.
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@seangcook: You’re welcome. Now you should also pay some attention to the other part of my article – the “How do I make CSS changes on wordpress.com?” part.
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Justpi….I definitely will. I didn’t design the blog and the issue wasn’t caused by me trying to edit the primary css to begin with, which was done before I arrived here. In fact, all I had to do was find that sheet and hit save, and the blog recovered. I’m still not sure what the issue was, other than some as yet undiscovered conflict between this css and a newly activated theme.
What I can’t recall and what is bugging me is…I don’t recall how I found your blog….I thought I just googled it. Is it a coincidence I found it or did you direct me there at some point I’m missing? At any rate, thanks, and I’ll be checking out the rest of the blog as well!
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No, I didn’t direct you to the blog myself. But your finding it isn’t exactly a coincidence either: I’m one of the most experienced volunteers in this forum, there are lots of links to my blog here, and the blog is dedicated to what its tagline says (and has a decent page rank) so it will easily turn up when you search for wordpress.com issues.
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