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You people are so great. Today’s confusion is clearing. Many thanks.

So, if I didn’t like something about 2013, I could always go back to my child theme of 2012? Would said child theme have preserved my custom menus or would i have to remake those?

Ok, so if I’ve only thus far altered some of the parent css file, I should find only those modifications and include them in a newly created css that will become the css of a child theme. Going forward any alterations of the css should go here?

Further, if I understand correctly, updates of WP beyond 3.5.1 may change the engine of how the program runs, which may change things in the base twentytwelve theme out of the box, but shouldn’t change things that are part of my child theme?

WPyogi: Are you saying you’d have to reinstall the widgets and recreate the menus when updating say twentytwelve to a newer release?

WPyogi and Andrew: It seems like you are all talking about comparing the css files. What about the other files php from the parent twentytwelve. What of these do you include in a child theme so that when twentytwelve is updated, those nuances transfer over. Media files?

Would twenty thirteen be considered a completely new theme altogether, and not an upgrade of twentytwelve?

Thank you for indulging these questions.

Ok, but I don’t understand why I would lose anything if the original folder (active parent) and contents that I would copy to make the child theme would necessarily include all of those modifications, including menus and widgets?

HOw could I keep a record of all the menu and widget changes i’ve made and would like to transfer over.

That worked! Thank you so much.

I’m sure I’ll be back to you with questions about the child theme.
Many many thanks!

Thank you both.

I will create a child theme!

Closing the comment correctly seems to have resolved the text label showing up across the icons, but now the icons no longer click through to their respective links.

Andrew,

I’m looking at this on an older iMac, and in a new macbook pro laptop running all new versions of browsers.

In Safari, the icons show without text label overlay, but don’t click through.

In latest version of Firefox, they click through, showing icons and overlapping text labels.

I don’t use chrome so it didn’t occur to me to test with it; obviously an error.

Is there a way I can not name the menu item without it disappearing altogether.

Thank you.

Having read your guidelines, I fear that I have posted in vein in someone else’s resolved thread, so will now attempt to post in a new thread. Thank you.

SInce my last post, I gave some style to the numbered menu item. When I go back to the custom menu and get rid of the Menu Item Label, I lose the nav item altogether??? Also, enabling a specific CSS style for a particular Custom Menu item, as with this Youtube item, doesn’t seem to make a difference:

Thank you in advance for your help!

Scratch site is here: https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/

Current CSS now reads:

}

.main-navigation li.menu-item-267 {! I’ve just added this to see if it works;
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/facebook_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: 120px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;
}
.main-navigation li.menu-item-255 {! I’ve just added this to see if it works;
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/youtube_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: -27px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;
}

.main-navigation li.menu-item-256 {! I’ve just added this to see if it works;
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/twitter_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: -27px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;

}

I am trying to do a similar thing. I have created the social media links but would like them to be clickable image icons, and also to be able to push them all to the right with little space between them. I created a custom menu and pointed to the following styles, added to the .css, but I must have put them in the wrong place or what you because they don’t appear.

Your guidance would be very much appreciated. The scratch site is here:
https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/

}

#menu-twitter {
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/twitter_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: -27px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;
}
#menu-facebook {
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/facebook_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: 120px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;
}
#menu-youtube {
text-indent: -9999px;
background-image: url(https://www.worldupsidedown.com/wpnow/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/youtube_24.png) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
margin-left: -27px !important;
width: 30px;
position: relative;
}