Sterling Theme CSS Reverts For No Reason

  • Hello!

    So I’ve been running a site with the Sterling theme for roughly a year, with no problems whatsoever, save for a few design errors on my end.

    However, I woke up this morning and, without touching the site’s design for over a week and a half, the design effectively wiped out the entire two-thirds/one-third formatting, custom header styles, custom sidebar styles, etc. Basically, everything but the body is completely broken.

    I’ve already contacted the theme designers, the MaxCDN support, turned caching on/off, turned minification on/off, and copied the entire CSS file into the Custom CSS field. I also copied and pasted a backed up version of the CSS into the custom file, to no avail. The site rendered properly as early as yesterday (a Google Webmaster Tools fetch on July 22 verified as much, with all the same plugins and settings).

    I consider myself a decent troubleshooter when it comes to WordPress and CSS issues, but I’m completely lost here. Is it possible there’s a WP or theme bug? Just from knowing how I built the site, it looks as if someone just flipped a switch on custom edits. Makes me think there’s one edit that will fix the entire thing.

    Any help would be appreciated, although I understand if my ambiguity makes it really, really hard to give advice.

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  • Where was/is the custom CSS located? A plugin, JetPack, a child theme, or does Sterling have a place for custom CSS?

    Thread Starter mccormjw

    (@mccormjw)

    There’s a Site Options –> Custom Stylings & CSS box that’s a part of Sterling’s theme.

    I did some edits directly to the CSS itself when designing the site a year ago (typically not the smartest thing, I know), but I started just copying and pasting portions of what I edited to the Custom CSS box and some of the styles have come back.

    So basically, even if something was marked as !important it was getting re-written, for some reason (no recent updates to WordPress or the theme).

    Does that answer your question?

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