https://pastebin.com/EYUZ92bF
I’m trying to comment out the one line of code in that file to remove the “Back To Top” link that appears in the footer. I’m using a premium theme called florence BUT, I experienced the same behavior with 20-14 default theme in CSS and PHP files.
Using custom CSS isn’t necessarily a non-starter; I just want to know why I can’t comment out code like in any other normal html, php, css files?
I prefer to back up my revisions and not use child themes, I don’t like redundancy regardless of how minimal the performance is affected. But even using a child theme is just a hack; why can’t I simply comment out code in already created wordpress content files?