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Thank you, vincidesigner, with the Google Fonts plugin, I was able to change the body text–finally! I was going to try for Helvetica Neue, which doesn’t seem to be on that list (?) but there are so many fonts, I’m sure I’ll find something.

However, with some playing around I am still not quite able to change the navigation/menu bar font at all. In fact, I’m realising that nothing I do in my child theme’s stylesheet makes any difference whatsoever. Is there something I’m missing about how to make changes in the child theme stylesheet that are reflected on the site?

(Perhaps a more specific quesion would be: how DO I change the font family in my child theme’s custom CSS; and are there any overrides or something that the parent theme would have to block changes made here that might explain why my changes aren’t being implemented? (Though I really do imagine it is me not changing the right thing, or enough things.))

Thanks!

Sounds good. Polar Lite is a child theme of Sueva, which made me think it was editable in that regard…but I see what you’re saying is that it’s possible to make a child theme of a child theme. Cool! I’ll look into that if I need to make any big changes in the future.

Thanks again!

Got it! It worked! Assuming that last link was a legitimate source for the file, then I think I am good to go. Site is back up and running. Thank you so much Josh for your helpful and successful instructions!

Lesson learned: no touching the theme function php file. Stick to the style sheet… ??

Googling around, I think it is possible to download it from here: https://fthe.me/polar-lite/. This would give me a zip file.

It’s Polar Lite. When I search for it on WP this comes up: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/polar-lite. It’s empty but all themes show up empty on there (?).

Thanks for this! I’m logged into my hosts cPanel, and can see just about everything you’re talking about in the later steps but just want to make sure I do the first thing correctly: where/how do I download a new copy of my theme? Do I do this within the File Manager or somewhere else in the cPanel?

I just switched from wordpress.com to www.ads-software.com this week, and am still getting used to how things work around here. I’m not sure if what I tried to do was modifying a core theme file. I was in Editor, and selected the link for theme functions on the right column of where the style sheet was.

I was attempting to add a SoundCloud player on the site, and followed the directions here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-embed-soundcloud-in-your-wordpress-posts-by-using-oembed/

It said to add the following to the theme’s functions.php file:

1// Add SoundCloud oEmbed
2 function add_oembed_soundcloud(){
3 wp_oembed_add_provider( ‘https://soundcloud.com/*’, ‘https://soundcloud.com/oembed’ );
4}
5add_action(‘init’,’add_oembed_soundcloud’);

I remember I had multiple tabs of the site open, and pressing save on this Editor page opened a new one with the error message. I thought perhaps I had done it wrong, so went back to the still-open Editor page, and deleted the code. Pressing save on that also opened a tab with the error message, and at this point refreshing any page of the open website brought up the error message.

Thanks for your help!