But, at my previous host, when my ‘blog was broken, it was usually because their apes had modified a security module in some foolish manner. I once spent hours debugging the problem, with the aforementioned apes insisting that they’d done nothing wrong, only to learn that using some phrase such as “security hacks” in a ‘blog entry had triggered the security module to block the site. (Perversely, the entry itself mentioned that a number of sites on the server that I used had been cracked as a result of the poor security of the host.)

Thank you for your work, and the attention to detail you put into it. Web writing quality has become highly disappointing of late, running completely contrary to well-edited prose in even print magazine pages, forebearers of the blog post. You present your information clearly and link to amplifying work.

And thanks to DreamHost, my own host, for making you available to us!

Bet regards,

Alan Cole

First off it isn’t just basic CSS and HTML. You need to also understand how to get around in Developer Tools. A lot of code pops up when you choose Developer Tools and I have trouble finding what style goes with what. But I guess I can figure that out.

BUT
Then you tell us write code into a php file.
Where is the functions.php file?
Should I go into my FTP and search for it?
Am I going to duplicate that file or are we creating a whole new php file?

Do you realize you never gave us the code to put into said php file?
This is what you wrote in quotes below.
“Simply copy-paste the following code into the functions.php file:”

Then there is nothing, no code, no instruction on how to create a php file.

1) Just the parent.

2) Yes, but you need to rename it in the style.css as well otherwise things get weird. It’s better not to, as TwentyFourteen isn’t meant to be a forkable theme. There’s a theme called Underscores which is perfect for that, though.

3) No, if you fork and rename a theme you stop getting updates. WordPress.org bases it on the folder name AND the style.css… which you’ve changed 🙂

I’ve two simple questions

1) If developers release the latest update of any theme, both the parent and the child theme gets updated or just the parent theme?

2) can I rename twenty fourteen theme, so that I can give my own blog name, lets say I rename twenty fourteen to “hopper” and child theme as “hopper-child” is it possible?

3) If the answer to the second question is yes, then do I still get updates? cause we change the name of the theme (I saw this on couple of websites) I hope you understand my question

Thanks,