Created style.css – now what?

  • Resolved kevos art

    (@kevos-art)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hey guys, I’ve just created a new website using Bluehost and I’ve also created a child theme so I can customize my site. In my file manager I made a style.css file and a functions.php file. So, my question is basically, now what?

    I understand that in order to begin customizing the theme I will be using style.css, but what about things like header.php and footer.php? I’ve seen a few different sources saying these files are needed and other sources saying you only need style.css, and long story short is I’m extremely confused about where to go now.

    I guess, for a starting point, here’s my website: https://www.kevinhughesart.com. I want to get rid of the grey box around my name up there in the top left corner. How would I do this?

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  • First reading this wouldnt hurt

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    and heres the css code to get rid of that gray background

    .site-branding {
    background: none !important;
}

    The various files like header.php and footer.php only need to be copied across to your child theme if you want to edit them. If you don’t need to do anything with those files, leave them where they are in the parent theme. As you’ve read, the only thing that you really need for the child theme is style.css and ‘functions.php`. Everything else is optional.

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