Custom CSS module overriding other CSS edit options?

Jetpack doesn’t touch your theme or other plugins, so it won’t stop you from editing changes in your Child Theme, for example.

How do you edit your child theme’s stylesheet? Do you use an FTP client to edit the file, and then upload it back to your site, or do you go through a File Manager provided by your hosting provider?

The way I’ve been attempting to modify the contents in the Child Theme has been directly through my website’s WordPress admin dashboard. Appearance > Editor > and then Stylesheet (style.css) under the “Hueman Child” theme.

I just tried using File Manager through my hosting service and that did not work, either. This is the code I’ve tested with:

/* Modify caption text */
.entry .wp-caption-text {
	color: #000;
	font-size: 15px;
}

When I try to implement that through the dashboard, in Editor, in the Child Theme or the Main Theme style.css or custom.css, it does not work. When I try to use File Manager to modify style.css or custom.css, that doesn’t work, either. It only works when I apply that exact code to the Jetpack “Edit CSS” module.

Your child theme’s stylesheet doesn’t include that CSS at the moment, so I assume it wasn’t saved properly when you saved your changes:
https://personacentral.com/wp-content/themes/hueman-child/style.css

Do you get any errors when you try to save that CSS, either in the theme code editor in your dashboard, or in the File Manager?

Oh no, I manually removed it because I’ve been trying to test it in a variety of ways. I have not had any problems saving any modifications to the CSS through the editor or in the File Manager.

I have added it back in (which is still not changing how captions look on the site), however I’m not seeing the change reflected in that link, for whatever reason.

I’m not seeing the change reflected in that link, for whatever reason.

I don’t see the changes either. Do you use a caching plugin or service on that site? Could you try to flush your site’s cache?

If you don’t use such a plugin, I’d recommend trying to use an FTP client instead of the file manager. Your hosting provider most likely has a tutorial to help you set that up.

Let me know how that goes.

I use W3 Total Cache and Cloudflare. I posted a similar question to this topic’s on the Hueman theme support forums because I wasn’t sure which the problem would be most relevant towards. It does seem like it is a caching issue, however.

Although disabling W3 Total Cache and Cloudflare did not help, it seems that changes I apply will work if I insert them into the Child Theme style.css and then purge the cache through Cloudflare. I don’t understand why they’re still not being reflected through that link, however. The Jetpack module changes work immediately without having to purge the cache.

The changes appear for me now. There were most likely cached in CLoudFlare and in our browsers.

I tried using another browser and, yeah, I see the changes as well.

Anyways, thank you for your help. I’ll mark this as resolved since this doesn’t seem to be an issue related to Jetpack or the Edit CSS module.