Epik stylesheet changes

“When the child theme is ready for an update, I suppose just the files are made available, and you can update what you choose?”

Yes for Child themes that’s the way it works…..or you could completely install the new version if you wanted to….but of course that overrides any customizations you’ve made. So I’d stick to either making a custom file, or documenting the changes you’ve made and adjusting the new version.

“Shoot, sorry, How can I get a copy of just the original style.css for Epik?”

You can download the latest version of the theme’s style.css and use that as a reference……If you purchased from this site, check here from Appfinite – https://appfinite.com/my-account or if you purchased from StudioPress, check here – http://my.studiopress.com

@HiNooril since there are a lot of topics here in the forum, you’ll have to link to which link you’re referring to exactly.

Try uploading using http://imgur.com/ that’s what we all use since bbpress doesn’t have an image uploader (at least not that I know of)

Ok, I would definitely not use these tools as a way to check the mobile responsive results, but that’s just my opinon. What they are showing for you is completely opposite of what I’m seeing. I have several iPhones that I have just checked and none of them look like that. I also have checked a couple androids and they look fine as well. If I were you, I would check on an actual phone because these emulators do not show the actual result in the same way as a mobile phone would. Your site is showing up fine on nearly every device I look at. I’m aware not all devices are the same, but it’s looking just fine from what I’m looking at.

Ah, yes I’ve used Browserstack a couple times in the past as well.

The phone I tested with is a Droid Incredible….but I have no idea what the other phone was because it was borrowed from someone at a starbucks. I have a Droid Incredible that I keep to test sites on Android, although they still show up differently on other Android devices. Android is very fragmented, so there are many devices using Android that run totally different. Sometimes it’s hard to create something that works for all devices since the OS is coded differently. It’s frustrating, but hopefully Android can fix that part of their fragmented system (the reason this problem occurs with not only websites, but applications as well).

Hi @HiNooril,

Lots of good advice already offered above, thought I’d just add my two cents.

Diffchecker is good if you’re online, I occasionally do a lot of work offline (while traveling etc). I don’t think you mentioned what computer you use, but if it’s a Mac then check out Text Wrangler…it’s great, it’s free, and it has a built-in file comparison tool that finds every difference between two copies of the same file (or any two or more files, but it really only makes sense when you’re comparing different versions of the same file).

Also, I belong to several (Meetup) users groups, for WordPress specifically and web design in general – many of us have different smartphones so we all help each other out with testing and screenshots….look around your local area for Meetup groups and dive in – they’re a great place to network and learn too.

And lastly, whenever I modify a style.css that came with a Theme, I generally always put my edits at the very bottom (well commented of course), which for the most part negates the need to use the !important declaration. Occasionally I do have to modify styles that appear earlier in the stylesheet (usually, but not always, when an earlier style has already specified !important), but if I do that I add comments using all caps so that I can spot them very easily in the future. This helps if I decided to update a Theme, because I can easily find all of my own edits from a backed-up copy.

As for modifying styles live using Appearance > Editor, there isn’t anything wrong with that as long as you’re backing up the stylesheet before applying your edits…it’s very easy to get two or three edits into making changes, have something break, and then find it difficult to put things back the way they were before you started editing.