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Thanks to both of you. I think I can make this theme work, as I seem to be able to override the other things besides the colour. I have also posted in the forum you mentioned EMG, where one of the developers is lurking about so hopefully I can get to the bottom of this.

In the back of my mind, I am wondering if I should be going with some sort of very editable wordpress theme (any suggestions). I’m not too bad with CSS as I have almost finished my IT degree (not sure how as programming tends to upset me!!) so maybe it would be easier in the long run if I had more control. I’m not really sure the best route to go.

Just wanted to be sure I was going to get follow up messages so I posted this. Please ignore, and feel free to tell me where I can get notifications without having to post. ??

Hi David,

I am also using this theme, and I am having trouble with colours. I have started a thread with a few replies at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/child-theme-seems-to-be-activated-but-not-in-header?replies=9#post-5489254

When I do as you have instructed, the styling in my child theme style sheet is overridden by the default style sheet. Here is a copy from the element inspector in chrome. The top one references the default style sheet, the second one is actually crossed out and references my child theme style sheet.

Is there a neat way to work on the colour scheme for this DesignFolio theme?

Thanks

element.style {
}
johnwilkinsonmusic.com.au/media="all"
#header-container, .footer-widget-container {
background: #253944;
}
johnwilkinsonmusic.com.au/media="screen"
#header-container, .footer-widget-container {
background: yellow;
}

Hi guys,

Just about to give this away for the day, but here is where I am at. I stuffed around with different themes and decided I could have a crack at the DesignFolio theme and just get something working. It was all looking good, except that once again there is more than one style sheet.

If you inspect the site-title text element you will see in my child theme I tried to make it green. Even though my child theme is first in the pecking order in the source, it is overridden by the default.css style sheet that is located at public_html/wp-content/themes/designfolio/includes/css/color_schemes

Any ideas?

EMG, I have not fully read your post as I have to move on to another project now, but I will respond when I am back attacking this problem again. Thankyou!

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for your response and excuse my delay. I tend to time box working on the site to save me getting overly aggravated ??

After I posted here, I decided to try yet another theme, which was the DesignFolio theme, this one seems to work. I have not dug around in it too much yet, but I am pretty sure it is because all the styling is in one style sheet, where as both the other themes I used had multiple style sheets.

It would have been nice to use the themes that are made for music, but I cannot seem to make that happen. I have already spent 6 hours stuffing around with Child Themes (learning from scratch though) so unless someone has a solution I guess I will just have to use a theme that doesn’t reference multiple style sheets.

I’ll play around now for 2 hours and see what I have at the end, and then post pack. ??

Thanks.

Hi, so following on from this. I decided to do away with the MusicSpace theme entirely and try a different one, namely the soundwavesSE theme. As before I have created a child theme and it is active, but nowhere in the source of my page at https://www.johnwilkinsonmusic.com.au does it say it is accessing any style sheet from the child theme. Everything is coming straight from the parent theme.

This obviously means I can not override and of thee css styling which is starting to get me pretty annoyed now.

Would LOVE a pointer in the right direction.

Thanks