Fest-Child vs Override.css

Hi there,

I have bought the Fest-Theme and am currently customizing it.
After several tries to customize the CSS by editing the Fest-Child's style.css file, I discovered override.css and located it thanks to the forum.
Now my questions are:
Why is there a Fest-Child-Theme?
What is the difference between the Fest-Child-style.css & override.css?
Do I have to use the override.css as one would normally use the child-theme's style.css?

A quick explanation would be very much appreciated
Thank you very much.

The idea is to allow theme update without overriding original files. The override.css file is the last loaded css file in the source code, so anything you specify inside will override any declaration that exist in any other file (assuming they are exactly same selector declarations).
So, to be sure that you will not override any changes made to theme while updating, and that your declarations copied from other css files will be override correctly you should use override.css inside child theme.
Also if you do any changes to core files - you can copy any of that files from main theme folder to child theme folder, and this file will be loaded overriding the original one.

Hi Cyberek,
Bottom-line, editing the style.css available in Fest-Child will not affect any of the design, correct?
Do I need to emulate the folder structure of the Fest-Template in order for the override.css to work in Fest-Child (i.e. Fest-Child/css/override.css)?
So far, just copying the override.css to the child-theme folder doesn't seem to be working.

You should copy the file with same folder structure as in parent theme.

Sorry to reopen this question, but I found this thread while trying to search for the same answer (about use of child/style.css vs child/css/override.css)

Since the answer appears to be that you need to use the override.css, my follow up question is whether there is a way to have the override.css show in the Wordpress > Appearance > Editor list of theme files?

Sadly no - it is not a native wordpress file so it doesn't allow to show it there. You need to edit the file with use of ftp client.