Reply To: Epik stylesheet changes

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.