Herbie28

Thanx WPyogi for your quick and helpful response. This exercise has been valuable for me.

I was unaware of Firebug and have since loaded it in Chrome and will use it in future. I can see now where the code is being pulled from and have satisfied myself that, indeed as you say, the color is held in SQL’s “wp-options” table.

I have taken on board your recommendations about Child themes also.

I need to learn a lot more obviously but this has satisfied my curiosity and dealt with my trainer wheel frustrations!

I can only assume the “table driven” versus “style sheet driven” color parameter change must have been part of a version enhancement since this book was published in 2010. I can’t imagine this author (Sabin-Wilson) would have made such an obvious faux-pas otherwise. But what would I know??

Thanx once again & best regards.

Thanx for your response Shucker. I must say I didn’t notice that there was an option to backup plugins. More than likely, that was the problem and I’ll give this backup plugin another try. Still having issues with the email side of things. Maybe it’s something to do with Gmail.