auldbert

I apologise if I am on the wrong forum and I thank you all for your help. I had already tried extending the buffer size at the end of the httpd.conf file and as to moving the dll files php5apache.dll and libmysql.dll, neither of these are to be found on my computer.

It seems that the failure can have many causes and perhaps Duplicator is the answer though that won’t be easy because I, for security reasons, don’t have direct access to my son’s site and he is remote from me.

Hello,

First of all thank you for your response. Perhaps in my initial and first “how to” post I should have given more detail.

I am using the twentyfourteen theme and my understanding is that the following line in its functions.php file will always load the active theme stylesheet be it parent or child
wp_enqueue_style( 'twentyfourteen-style', get_stylesheet_uri() );

So my situation is one in which my child functions.php loads its parent style and then page specific styles after which the parent functions.php loads the child style and I had thought that a solution might lie in somehow changing the order of stylesheet loadings.

I resorted to using !important in the page specific css that I did not want overridden.I knew nothing of css specificity so I thank you for that reference as it will certainly help prioritise styling.

However I still think there must be a way to better enqueue the stylesheets so for a time I will leave this post as unresolved.

Regards to all