Edit CSS?

[Patrick]

Hey, this is probably an annoying question…

Trying to edit the CSS, no luck so far.

I see that there is a child theme custom.css file, I’ve edited the file as in .entry-title{color:red!important;}, under the global category, disabled the customizer via functions.php. Verified that the child theme is being used…

Tried installing a child theme editor after that to, doesn’t work either.

Any ideas?

[Patrick]

So I deactivated the BuddyBoss theme, activated TwentyFifteen, created a child theme, child css and it works fine.

Something about the custom.css is not catching, maybe an issue with the functions.php in the child?

[Alyssa]

@legitballers after red and before ! insert a space.

[Patrick]

I don’t think the issue is with my syntax, spaces aren’t a problem. Although, I did try it out, no change.

The only thing that has worked this far is disabling your theme, and using another child theme. The css applies.

But when I use your theme, and apply a child theme, no css is applied at all. It isn’t even registered as invalid css, rather it does not apply to the element.

Any ideas on why this could be happening?
Is there some way to determine if the child theme is actually being used?

[Alyssa]

@legitballers can you send me a link so i can view the custom.css on your site?

[Patrick]

So this is kind of interesting:

I modified the custom.css a few days ago, testing the css by labeling .entry-header .entry-title{
color:green !important;
}

It didn’t change.

But now that I go to look, it is indeed green. So I test by turning it orange, but it stays green.
So I look up the file via url: http://legitballers.com/wp-content/themes/buddyboss-child/css/custom.css
It reports green.

So I download the file via ftp, it is orange.

It seems that the changes are not updating, so this is more likely a server issue, or a result of caching. I noticed that a plugin: WordFence has caching services, deactivated, still not updating.

Like many requests I have sent your way, I assume that this is not a Theme issue, rather a server issue, or plugin configuration?

What do you think?

[Alyssa]

@legitballers many caching plugins keep on caching even after caching is disabled. I suggest you completely delete the plugin and manually remove cache files. Contact the plugin owner how to do this completely.

[Patrick]

Thanks man, I’ll do that. I appreciate you looking into it.

[Alyssa]

I’ll leave this open just in case we need to return to it.

[Troy]

Was this resolved as I am having the same problem?

Updating custom.css is sporadic at the best of times. Sometimes it updates and most of the time it doesn’t.

[Troy]

Turns out this was a SuperCacher issue with the host Siteground. Flushed cache, disabled it and all good.

[Alyssa]

I was going to suggest a caching plugin 🙂