[Resolved] Changing source files is leading to fatal errors

[Lukas]

Hi Support,

I’m trying to change to your theme generatepress. For that I’m using Theme Switcha. So live you see my “old” theme kirumo and not generatepress. I have the updated wordpress and generatepress for the newest versions.

I think I have a general problem. I can’t make changes to the main source files: functions.php, content-page.php. But it’s not important what I change. I just added a comment and wordpress is loading forever and I get a fatal error and have to load the backup for the file to get wordpress running again.

I tried a childtheme too but it doesn’t work either and I dont want a second css file overwriting the main css file. I’m trying to speed up the page and I want to delete all the unnecessary css.

Do you got a security mode so I can’t change these files?

Greetings

[Tom]

Hi there,

There’s nothing preventing you from changing the parent theme files (although it’s not recommended at all).

What’s the fatal error you get exactly?

[Lukas]

ok, it seems to be the Theme Switcha Plugin which is causing the problem. When it’s deactivated, than it works.

Have a nice day

[Tom]

You too! 🙂

[Lukas]

I tried to modify the style.css and some other css files but it doesn’t effect the css on the blog. How is the css generated? Can I modify the css somewhere? I want to delete unused classes and add some css…

[Tom]

Any CSS you add should go into a CSS plugin or your child theme. Modifying the parent theme will cause lots of issues in the future. The theme is only about 30kb on a fresh install, so you shouldn’t have to worry about deleting unused CSS.

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