social media icons in nav bar

pasted all of the parent themes style.css.

You should not have a copy of the parent file – the NEW child theme style.css file should contain only this (to start with):

/*
 Theme Name:     Liquorice Child
 Theme URI:
 Description:
 Author:
 Author URI:
 Template:       liquorice
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

@import url("../liquorice/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

Ok perfect. So I’ve done that.
Now do I want to activate it?
Or do I need to copy over any of the codes that I’ve changed in the editor and css custom manager plugin?
I made changes to my theme before I made this child theme. Is that a problem?

Yep, activate it – but know that you’ll need to redo settings/options that you set up in the parent theme – they don’t carry over.

I’d also recommend moving any CSS changes from custom CSS to the new child theme style.css file – just so you have everything in one place – less confusing.

If you’ve made changes to theme files, yes, those will get overwritten when the theme is updated. Do you know which files you changed – if any?

I’ve changed the themes colors and fonts in the parent theme. And added social media icons to widget and stuff.

So should I copy and paste everything I have in my custom css manager plugin, under what I have written in the child theme style.css. Then delete it in the css manager plugin?

As for the colors I’ve changed, do I just need to go back in and do that all over again once I activate my child theme?

So should I copy and paste everything I have in my custom css manager plugin, under what I have written in the child theme style.css. Then delete it in the css manager plugin?

Yep, I’d just deactivate that plugin entirely.

As for the colors I’ve changed, do I just need to go back in and do that all over again once I activate my child theme?

Yep.

Ok. So I’ve deactivated my custom css manager plug in (after I copied the code in it, into the style.css of the child theme)

But now I want to go and change the colors, like I did with the parent theme, only there is nothing there to change.

Ok. I copy and pasted the parent themes style into my child themes. And almost everything is working, except the color of the background.

Ya. I just can’t figure out why the background won’t go white. This is exactly what I copied over.

}
body {
background-color: #ffffff;
color:#000000;
font:100%/1.4em Georgia,”Times New Roman”,Times,serif;

That means it should be white, right?

AND (lol) – now when I hover over a post title, it does something weird for a second. It shows a weird tile-type pattern.

Ok. I copy and pasted the parent themes style into my child themes.

You really should avoid doing that as you already have the ‘@import‘ line.

You’re also making it difficult on volunteers to help debug CSS issues, as now they have a thousand lines of CSS to wade through.

Ok. So I should take out what I copy and pasted from the parent theme into my editor?

Then where do I put it to get the style for my page as it was?

Does your website break without all of those styles and just the ‘@import‘ line?

Yes.

Did you copy the ‘@import‘ line from somewhere? It’s corrupted.

Ok. I just fixed it. Now should I delete everything? except for:
/*
Theme Name: Liquorice Child
Theme URI:
Description:
Author:
Author URI:
Template: liquorice
Version: 1.0.0
*/

@import url(“../liquorice/style.css”);

/* =Theme customization starts here
————————————————————– */