theme update

Stop editing the theme and use a create a child theme for your changes instead.

do i just copy over all of the original theme to the child theme?

I have copied over the entire original theme (with my personal changes) to the child theme, and then activate the child theme and its worked ??

can i now let the original Max theme update without effecting the child theme?

It’s worth carefully reading the Codex page regarding Child Themes that Esmi has linked.

Ive only got to this bit – @import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

And got totally stuck. I do not want to damage the original max theme

What are you stuck on? A child theme does not touch the original theme at all – that’s the point of using a child theme.

Why are you stuck with that @import line?

did not understand where it was saying to put it.

My knowledge of all this is very basic, and get lost very easily. Only been working on this stuff for 5 months, and still learning :/

Perhaps you need to reread that entire page from the top – your child theme should only have 1 file in it to start with – and in that file should be:

/*
Theme Name:     Max Magazine Child
Template:       max-magazine                             

*/

@import url("../max-magazine/style.css");

Once you have that set up and activated and we know it’s working, then you can move any changes you have made to the child theme. But one step at a time – that way it’s not so confusing or overwhelming :).

ahhh i did that, but was putting the @import at the top and nothing happened :#

so is what you have put the way it is ment to look?

Yep :). Then you will put ONLY your changes to the CSS code after the @import line. How extensive have your changes been? Have you modified any other files besides style.css?

only changes have been to speed of the main carousel and header image size, but took me ages to find how to do it. so did not want those changes being overwritten.

Which file are those changes in?

to be honest i cannot remember, i would have to go back through the support pages to find out.

im not that tech savvy, only done stuff via walkthrough help by support ??