Customizing Theme before going live

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  • November 16, 2014 at 9:13 am #14525
    JoshCary
    Customer

      Hi there,

      Great theme here (using Epik). Two related questions…

      1) If I change style.css to get some custom options on the site, they won’t be over-ridden during future child theme updates?

      2) I plan on using this theme for a site of mine that is currently up and running with another Genesis theme. If I customize the Epik theme on another server, how can I bring those changes over to my main site and have it ready for launch. Can I use an export/import setting to achieve this?

      Thanks.

      Josh

      November 18, 2014 at 12:23 am #14547
      Eric
      Customer

        Yes if you make changes to your style.css file and manually upgrade then it will be overridden. That’s how WordPress and Genesis works by default. However, you could create a custom css file so that any updates won’t be affected by the style.css file.

        Keep in mind, there aren’t that many updates that are made to child themes. Any updates that are made are usually minor updates, and nothing to be concerned about. The Genesis Framework has updates, but they don’t affect child theme customizations.

        I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

        November 18, 2014 at 1:43 pm #14557
        JoshCary
        Customer

          Hey, thanks Eric.

          OK, so I uploaded a custom.css file to my child theme directory.

          How do I “tell” the theme to look for it?

          November 21, 2014 at 9:32 pm #14583
          Eric
          Customer

            Add something like this to the top of your css file –

            @import url("link_to_your_stylesheet.css"); Replace – link_to_your_stylesheet.css with the link to your css file that you’ve uploaded to your site.

            That should work fine, but if you want more info you can search “How to Include a CSS file inside of another CSS file” (or something similar). Here is one for example – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/147500/is-it-possible-to-include-one-css-file-in-another

            I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

            November 22, 2014 at 12:11 pm #14594
            JoshCary
            Customer

              Well thanks again, Eric, I really appreciate that.

              Another question I have is how to get the main menu floating right side, next to logo in header. My current menu is wrapping under the logo.

              Thank you!

              November 22, 2014 at 12:28 pm #14595
              JoshCary
              Customer

                Ahh figured out the answer to my own question.

                To get menu floating to the right of logo you need to add menu to Header Right Widget!

                Didn’t realize it wasn’t set to the right by default.

                Thanks again!

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