Brittany

Thank you so much for your help!! Somehow I had never actually CREATED a child theme and was just working through “Edit CSS” instead of editing an actual child theme.

Working on all the backgrounds and header images and whatnot and I think this case may be closed!

So sorry to have wasted your day for something so stupid but I cannot thank you enough!!!

Oh my gosh WOW. I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time. *Smacks forehead* on to work on my child theme and hopefully fix everything….

I actually updated it, saved, and it threw the import line back up the at the top. ????

But okay, WOW, I’m dumb. I had never created a child theme folder/style.css file on my host site. That is all done and I did a live preview of the child theme (which I can now activate – woo hoo!) but none of my original child theme is there… How can I mash the two together? (so to speak)

Yes, cache is deleted. Plugin deactivated
As previously stated, active theme is Twenty Twelve version 1.3

@wpyogi: SuperCache is now activated… I’m running Twenty Twelve version 1.3

@andrew Nevins: Surely — Here’s the link (pardon my mess) https://pastebin.com/J06RxiDd

Mine looks like that example but with twentytwelve. I even redid it. I still don’t understand why it says my child theme is inactive because MOST of my changes within that child theme are working. The only one I’m struggling with is the nav bar which I’ve made a couple changes to since starting this post…

Now the font works, but I can’t get the background color back or the alignment to work or the font color… Used to be nice and pretty. Here’s what I had that is no longer working (that previously worked before I updated this theme);

#masthead .main-navigation a {
	background-color: #598cdd;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: Philosopher;
	text-align: center;
}

Also still not sure why my rounded corners stop working upon hovering (on my header image)… something wrong with that code now too?

.appearance_page_custom-header #headimg {
	border: none;
	margin-bottom: -10px;
	-moz-border-radius: 90px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 90px 90px 90px 90px;
	border-radius: 90px 90px 90px 90px;
}

#headimg h1,
	#headimg h2 {
	line-height: 1.6;
	margin-bottom: -10px;
	padding: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 90px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 90px 90px 90px 90px;
	border-radius: 90px 90px 90px 90px;

Thanks ??

Maybe my child theme has the wrong import? Is that possible? The text is in red (@import “../twentytwelve/style.css”;)

Okay, did that. Not sure anything changed ?? Since the plugin was in active, I think I essentially deleted nothing lol

SuperCache is currently an inactive plug-in and gives me this error message when I try to delete: Could not remove WP_CACHE define from /home3/bookadd2/public_html/wp-config.php. Please edit that file and remove the line containing the text ‘WP_CACHE’. Then refresh this page.

This is something I should delete through my host website and refresh?

I’m using Safari 6.0.5

My child theme should be active because the rest of the CSS is working.

I run the risk of sounding like a total idiot but… Not quite sure what SuperCache is.

Never mind… It looks back to the way it was after the update. Didn’t change anything though.

WOW that made everything a million times worse. Cleared ALL my CSS so it seems.

masthead {
    position: relative;
    width: 1040px;
    left: -40px;
}

This worked!!! Oh wow, thank you so much. I’ve been beating my head against a wall for so long Googling trying to figure it out. Thank you so much!!

Oh my goodness, I can’t believe I understood that and figured it out through Blue Host. THANK YOU for your help!!!!

Thank you! Except…. I don’t know what that means. I’m sorry! I’m still extremely knew at this so I probably shouldn’t have been messing with it in the first place.
I have Blue Host – So I would do it through there?