Christina Workman

Hi Roy
If you plan on making lots of CSS customizations, I do recommend implementing a child theme. If you want to make any PHP changes, you’ll need it as well. This would become the active theme on your site, and would reference the parent theme (or the original theme you were working with), which also needs to be installed on your site.

If you haven’t created a child theme before, you can try something like https://childtheme-generator.com/ to help you out. It will give you the bare bones you need to get started: style.css and functions.php. You can add any other files you may need down the road.

Once you have that child theme installed and activated, you can add any customizations you want to the style.css file and they will override those in the parent theme.

You can access this file in a couple of ways:

1. from the wp-admin dashboard: Appearance > Theme Editor, then choose the file you want to edit
2. via ftp or cpanel (file manager): from whereever your WordPress installation is, wp-content > themes > your-child-theme-slug

Hope that helps!

Sidenote: the link you provided is local to your computer, so we aren’t able to reference it.

Perfect! We’ll sit tight for now then. Thanks ??

I had a similar problem and it seemed to be tied to sitemaps. Not sure if it’s a complication with another plugin, but I reverted back to 4.7.1, then logged in and turned off sitemaps. After that, I upgraded to 4.8 again and so far everything is working normally again.

I had a similar problem and it seemed to be tied to sitemaps. Not sure if it’s a complication with another plugin, but I reverted back to 4.7.1, then logged in and turned off sitemaps. After that, I upgraded to 4.8 again and so far everything is working normally again.

I went the file route. Worked like a charm. Thanks!