static css question

2TD

hi - I'd like to make my styles static to speed up my site. I am using a child theme. I see the style-static.css file in the main betheme folder but what happens when the theme is updated? Won't it just overwrite that file? Should I put that file in my child theme folder? Also, would you advise adding the styles from my child theme into this file as well to speed up the site or would that not affect the speed?
Thanks in advance

Albert

Hi,

that file can be used in parent theme only. And because theme does not have this file by default, you won't lose any content of this file if you won't remove files from FTP. And because we do not offer files customization, we can not recommend any modification. If you want to speed your site, all we can recommend is W3 Total Cache plugin.

Thanks!

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2TD

Could you clarify? In the functions php file it says:

// Static CSS is placed in Child Theme directory ----------
define( 'STATIC_IN_CHILD', false );

So if i make this true and save the static css file in the child theme folder would that work? Would I copy the css in the source paste it into a new file named style-static.css and add that to the child theme folder?

I do plan to use the W3 total cache but would like to make it as fast as i possibly can.

Albert

Ohh, we do apologize but we completely forgot about this feature. We got so many of them and sometimes it's hard to remember them all. You're right, if you change false to true, you can copy style-static.css file into child theme folder and use the same way as with parent theme.

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