Child theme CSS changes not showing up on site

  • Hello – I am fairly new to WordPress and since completely re-doing my site about 6 or 7 times – I have decided to start using a child theme – I have followed all of the instructions for creating a child theme and I have activated it. I am new to CSS but it seems like all of the things that I have been adding to my css file in the editor are not taking effect at all. To test the theory that I just don’t know what I am doing – I found css that someone who obviously knew what they were doing and pasted it in my file to see if it made any changes – it did not. I have created a folder in /themes called /themes/childtheme – as I mentioned I have activated it so I know that WP is recognizing it (it says in the themes screen that this is a child theme for the parent theme twentytwelve. On a side note – I have copied the header.php file to this directory and made changes to it and those changes are apparent on the page so it must just be something with this particular file. It is named style.css and it is located in the /childtheme folder. This is what is in the file right now:

    /*
    Theme Name: Childtheme
    Description: Child theme for the TwentyTwelve theme
    Theme URI: https://www.www.remarpro.com
    Author: Riley Betka
    Author URI: https://www.daily-mash.com/
    Template: twentytwelve
    version: .1
    */

    @import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

    for right now I am really just trying to change the main content area background to black. I have added
    #page {
    background-color: black;
    }
    #content {
    background-color: black;
    }

    It seems like that should be changing the color but it does nothing – can anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Seems like it is something small and stupid that is preventing my changes from taking effect. I am trying to start playing around with CSS and so far this is quite the let down – thanks in advance for your help!

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  • Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    So I did some digging on ipage and found this – I don’t fully understand it but it seems like this may be the source of most of my frustration – I don’t really get what it means by rename all images and links to make it update instantaneously…any ideas?

    Configure Akamai after purchase
    After you have purchased the Akamai, the following process occurs:

    iPage modifies your DNS, so that all new traffic requesting your site routes through Akamai’s servers. The change takes a maximum of 24 hours, but often as little as 2 hours.
    iPage sets up browser caching on your site as part of the Akamai configuration. This configuration allows your site to maximize the benefits offered by the Akamai solution.
    iPage redirects all requests for yoursite.com to https://www.yoursite.com, where “yoursite” is your domain name. If you wish to change this default setting, to redirect to another subdomain, you may do so through the Akamai tool page. Akamai works exclusively on subdomains to avoid collision with existing DNS MX records that may be associated with the base domain.
    Route your site through Akamai when using custom Nameservers
    When using non-iPage nameservers, you can still use Akamai. However, you need to make the following adjustments to your DNS settings at the nameserver you use:

    For each subdomain you would like to route through Akamai you will need two CNAMEs:
    a CNAME record pointing https://www.yourdomain.com to ipage-cust.com.edgekey.net
    a CNAME pointing origin-www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com

    where https://www.yourdomain.com is the subdomain being routed through Akamai

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    Troubleshooting
    I changed my pages, but the new content is not showing up
    Your site’s images, CSS, and javascript are cached on Akamai’s servers for 4 hours. You will automatically see your new content when the servers renew.

    If you wish to change your site instantaneously, rename your images and all links to the images, to force the new content.

    Why are you using Akamai? You’ll need to ask them or your host for help with it.

    Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    the host just says that they use it – I don’t know if it’s an option.

    That seems like a significant problem to me. In this case, these is nothing to rename (i.e. as with an image). I’d ask ipage if there is a workaround – hard to imagine how anyone would put up with a 4 hour delay on a CSS change??

    Maybe another host would be the best solution?

    Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    yeah I sent them an email – I guess I will see what they say – I appreciate all of your help!

    I had a similar problem on my site [No need to link your site]. My browsers (FF, Opera, Crome, all the same) showed the old version of css, even after cleaning the cache.
    Finally I found out that “the problem” was caused by Cloudflare I use because it act as a cache plugin.
    So if your problem still exists, try to temporarily turn off cache plugin you may have. If you use Cloudflare, just push the “Purge cache” button.

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