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Modified styles in WordPress

by on Jul.14, 2011, under Web design / development

I have another site produced with WordPress and it uses a modified version of the Twenty Eleven theme.

The trouble was that whenever I applied an update to the theme, it obviously overwrote my modified style.css. I suppose if I wasn’t lazy I could have copied the theme to a new folder and simply used the copied theme. Although I do like getting updates including any improvement tweaks etc.

To get round this I found a great plugin called Style Press which was made by grandslambert who has also produced some other handy plugins. So I installed it, added my custom css, reverted the style.css back to the original version, and it worked perfectly. So in future whenever I apply a new update to this theme, unless class or id names change, the site will always look the same because the extra bit of css is always added at the end of all the other style includes in the html.


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