[sdrasner]

Hi, I tried it out and it still doesn’t override. I really appreciate your help and you trying to get this to work. Can you let me know if you make any progress? In the meantime I will revert to the old theme and keep working, with my customized styles well commented.

Thanks,
Sarah

[sdrasner]

Hey, it’s still not working, even though I tried both of the above. It does work when I put it in the customize section in the dashboard. I would prefer not to do it that way, but if there is no good solution aside from that I can work with it. I tried taking the styles out of the function enqueue in your theme and instead @importing in the stylesheet, but that didn’t work either. ce la vie.

[sdrasner]

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[sdrasner]

hm. doesn’t seem to be working. any other ideas? when that didn’t work I also tried to add this to my functions file:

<?php
/* CHILD THEME FUNCTIONS SHOULD GO IN THIS FILE.
The Parent theme (twentytwelve) functions.php is loaded in addition to this file.
(The child theme's functions.php file is loaded first before the parent theme's functions.php file.) */

function childtheme_create_stylesheet() {
$templatedir = get_bloginfo('template_directory');
$stylesheetdir = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/base.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/layout.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/responsive.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/skeleton.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/css/skeleton-responsive.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheetdir ?>/style.css" />

<?php
}
add_filter('samsara_create_stylesheet', 'childtheme_create_stylesheet');

?>

based on the documentation I read here about filtering: http://themeshaper.com/2009/04/30/modular-css-wordpress-child-themes/http://themeshaper.com/2009/04/30/modular-css-wordpress-child-themes/

Still didn’t work.

I won’t keep bothering you with this but just wondering if you knew of anything else. Usually it’s a lot easier to override.

Thank you,
Sarah

[sdrasner]

Great! Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it!

[sdrasner]

Also, thank you for your prompt response.

[sdrasner]

Ah, I see it, I was running search queries for visual composer. The reason that it didn’t come up for me is because I’m trying to create a child theme of your theme. That way I can modify and make the look and feel unique but still get updates. I am, however, finding it hard to overwrite your styles. I suppose I can hack your template but I’m really more of a developer so I would prefer to work this way. I was planning on building within the visual composer in the dashboard, because it seems like that’s the most comfortable way of moving things around the way that this is built. But do you have any recommendations for me in order to override these styles and create templates of my own? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

(To be clear, I’ve made about 50 child themes before so you don’t have to explain anything basic)

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