upgrade lost new css styles

Yes. If you are going to change a theme, you should create a child theme.

Thank you, this is the first time I’ve used the forum. I’ve also just signed up for Lynda.com. It’s hard to know where to go for help. I’d like to stick with the TwentyTen theme so I can get a basic understanding of how this all works. I’m pretty comfortable with HTML and CSS but PHP is a whole new thing for me. Thank you again for your Big help.

Sure. https://vudu.me/child gives an explanation about child themes

Now, one thing I’m not sure of. The most recent version of WP (3.2) has a new default theme, twentyeleven. However it shipped with twentyeleven and twentyten

I’m not sure what the future plans are for twentyten now that it is no longer the ‘default’ theme

Also, with version 3.2, WP no longer overwrites every file everytime something is upgraded. Only the files that changed are swapped out.

However, even when using other themes in WP besides whatever the default is, it is best to consider a child theme. That way if the theme in use gets updated, your edits made in your child theme remian safe.

For a lot of theme work you may do, html and css knowledge are pretty much all you need. I don’t know php per se. I just have figured out enough to know what php is doing in the contect of WordPress. So once you can figure out what the php is doing, it’s the html and css that take care of the styling.

Rev. Voodoo,

Thanks for the tip! I’ve run into this problem many times, and I have always just re-modified the stylesheet. Never thought of the child theme approach.