Small adaptions to an existing style sheet made TOO COMPLICATED

  • Unknown's avatar
    limpingmessenger · Member ·

    So I took the CSS subscription and I read:

    “You can not edit the stylesheets of your theme. Your stylesheet will be loaded after the theme stylesheets, which means that your rules can take precedence and override the theme CSS rules. The Sandbox theme is recommended for those who would prefer to start from scratch.”

    and then I read a few lines below

    Do you want to make changes to your current theme’s stylesheet, or do you want to start from scratch?
    Add this to the MistyLook theme’s CSS stylesheet (view original stylesheet)

    These two statement are CONTRADICTIONARY!

    EITHER I CAN NOT CHANGE MY ORIGINAL STYLESHEET

    or

    I CAN

    not both options.

    And I want only – at this moment – to chnage the font size of the caption (smaller) and the font size of the main text (a bit bigger)

    that is all… I can see the original style sheet and where I have to change what. But that is not allowed. I feel cheated by paying a little sum for adapting my CSS..

    Is that some crooked copyright idea of rights on a stylesheet, or something else? I fail to understand teh rationale of this.

    Why make me suffer while I only want to change a small thing?

    because I also ghet warning not to simply copy the original stylesheet and paste it in the other from scrap box… ALL YOUR LINKS ARE GONE!

    Why is that. It should not happen with a style sheet in my understanding.

    So I maust have certainly mist the point of my wanted changes of the Misty look… I am most happy with any advice on what/how to do/ proceed

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    husdal · Member ·

    You cannot edit the original stylesheet.

    That is correct because ALL blogs on wordpress.com using that theme need that stylesheet, and you don’t want to mess up other people’s blogs.

    But you can make changes to the stylesheet that your blog is using by adding your changes to the stylesheet editor, e.g. changing fonts, colors and whatever else that you fancy. What the stylesheet editor does is that it overrules the original stylesheet. The web browser first calls the original stylesheet, and then the edited stylesheet, if it exists. If the original stylesheet says font size 12px and you edit it to be 14px in the editor, then the result will be a font size 14px. You have not changed the original stylesheet, but you have changed how it works on your blog.

    Mind you, as the name implies, it is a stylesheet. You can alter the style of the theme you are using, quite drastically if you know CSS, but you cannot take the stylesheet from some other theme, e.g. a non-wordpress.com theme, copy and paste and think it’ll work work. All changes have to be done so that they match the elements in the original stylesheet.

    Simply copy the original parameters from the original stylesheet, e.g.

    body {
	...
	font-size:12px;
}

    paste it into the stylesheet editor and change it to

    body {
	...
	font-size:14px;
}

    Save and you are done.

    Note: the CSS code above is only meant as an example. Your theme’s CSS may be different.

  • Unknown's avatar
    thesacredpath · Member ·

    /nod to husdal

    If you paste the entire stylesheet into the CSS edit window and then select “start from scratch…” what you are doing is editing a copy of the stylesheet, not the original. The edited copy will then be applied to your blog.

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