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Hi Will

Thanks for that. How were you able to find the element? I inspected the element but I can’t see any .shareaholic-canvas … am I seeing this wrong?

Thanks
Dave

thanks for that stephen!

another question: how do i copy the header.php and footer.php files from the parent theme onto the child theme? can i do it via wordpress itself? because i can’t seem to find my wordpress folder on my hard drive.

i am using mac os x el capitan and using firefox as browser

hope you could help

thanks!

Amazing so not including the closing brackets makes the following codes not work?

I’m sorry how do you add header.php and footer.php into the child theme?

I’m in appreance -> editor -> GenerePresschild now

Using Mac OS X El Capitan

Thanks
Dave

All right thanks for all the help.

But just for clarification all overrides should be done through the child theme right?

One more thing: what if I want to override something in the header or footer, how do I go about it? how do I add a “duplicate” header and footer on my child theme?

Thanks!

Problem is i tried editing the padding: 40px 40px 40px 40px from my browser (through inspect element) and it works.

However, you are right when we try to override the codes through style.css of child theme it seems it doesn’t.

Is there like a disconnect happening?

Hi Mark,

I did all you told me: here’s a snap of my child theme style.css

https://davemontemayor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-20-at-9.58.01-AM.png

But still doesn’t work. Anything I am doing wrong?

Dave

Ok thanks,

But check this out:

https://davemontemayor.com/quantifying-the-unquantifiable/

I am trying to reduce the space between the Facebook comment section and the website post section.

So I inputted the following code on my child theme style.css

.comments-area {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}

.inside-article {
padding-bottom: 0px !imporant;
}

How come it is not working? ??

By the way I used “Child Theme Configurator” plugin to create the child theme.

Is this wrong?

Hi James,

Hmmm here’s a snap of my themes dashboard for your reference:

https://davemontemayor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-20-at-9.34.43-AM.png

Is there anything I am doing wrong?

Actually, I think I am doing something because when I tried coding on the end of my style.css child theme the codes do not work.

Apologies for the ignorance.

Dave

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the prompt reply:

.comments-area {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}

.inside-article {
padding-bottom: 0px !imporant;
}

I wrote this on my GeneratePress Child Theme style.css sheet. It doesn’t work. Is there anything I am doing wrong?

Thanks buddy.

Dave

Hi James,

Thanks for the prompt and quick reply.

Yes I am using the GeneratePress Child theme.

But thing is, when I try to inspect an element, I still go to the parent theme and change it there. When I try doing the code on my child theme the code doesn’t work.

Is there anything I am doing wrong?

Thanks.
Dave