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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › editing styles.css in wordpress template editor

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Tagged: customizer, editing css, template editing

  • This topic has 8 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 4 months ago by bill scheider.
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  • December 1, 2017 at 5:49 pm #214182
    bill scheider
    Member

    I'm trying to edit my style.css file directly through the wordpress or template editor (Appearance > Editor). Instead, I now get a message telling me to use the customizer to add custom css.

    I'm aware of the 'dangers' of doing this, but it's how I've been doing it for ages. I want to view the entire stylesheet at once and make multiple changes without having to write new rules for all my changes. Why has this changed and, more importantly, how can I get back to my old workflow?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA
    Bill

    http://site under development
    December 2, 2017 at 7:06 am #214193
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    The WordPress developers did this in Ver. 4.9 when they added the syntax checker. It has nothing to do with the Genesis Framework or Studio Press themes.


    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
    Have you requested your free website audit yet?

    December 2, 2017 at 2:43 pm #214208
    bill scheider
    Member

    Thank you Victor. Quite a paternalistic change imo! I wasn’t sure where it came from.
    Bill

    December 4, 2017 at 11:44 am #214256
    barbaradavis
    Member

    Bill, I had the same feeling! I've been carefully editing Studiopress style.css files in the Editor for years.
    I figure I'll just FTP download style.css and edit in Dreamweaver or Textwrangler, then send it back up -- carefully keeping backups and original copies, as always.
    Thank you Victor, for the scoop.

    Still loving WP and Studiopress,

    Barbara

    December 5, 2017 at 8:45 pm #214301
    carrie
    Participant

    Thanks for the insight, folks...one of my questions answered - what a pita!

    Carrie

    December 14, 2017 at 11:53 am #214558
    brightisland
    Participant

    Just chiming in to say I LOATHE not being able to just do a basic Cmd+F search through my stylesheets to make changes. I decided to pop over here just to see if anyone else was talking about it, or if anyone else knew of a fix in the works.

    I hope they'll provide an option to use it the way we've all been doing it for years. I appreciate these safeguards for newbies, but some of us have been doing this for years and years and we really don't need this kind of hand-holding.

    December 27, 2017 at 8:35 am #214834
    odnt
    Member

    You can disable this new feature:

    Users > Your Profile > Syntax Highlighting > Disable syntax highlighting when editing code

    December 27, 2017 at 12:57 pm #214848
    carrie
    Participant

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, odnt!!

    December 28, 2017 at 5:28 pm #214913
    bill scheider
    Member

    Thanks so much ODNT. This helps make life just a bit easier.
    Bill

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