CSS Customization for Theme Design Not Reflecting

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CSS Customization for Theme Design Not Reflecting

Thank you for your continued support.

I apologize for the lengthy message.

I am using the Modena theme with ConcreteCMS 9.4.8.

I tried to change the header and footer colors of my site by customizing the theme design via “Page Settings” → “Design” → “Customize” → “Presets,” changing the colors and text, and saving the style, but it’s not reflecting correctly.

Saving on “This Page” changes the homepage, but navigating to other pages and saving on “This Page” doesn’t reflect the changes, and the changes don’t appear anywhere on the “Entire Site.”

I’ve disabled all “Cache and Display Speed ​​Settings” in the ConcreteCMS settings screen, disabled all speed optimization settings on my hosting provider, and cleared my browser cache, but the problem persists.

The only thing I can think of is that the site was previously upgraded from ConcreteCMS 8.5.17 with PHP7 to ConcreteCMS 9.4.1 with PHP8.

At that time, I was using PHP7, then upgraded to ConcreteCMS 9.4.1, and then to PHP8. (The database remained the same.)

The site itself looked fine, so I continued to operate it as is, but is there a problem now?

Is there any way to fix this situation where design changes are not reflected?

I got stuck, so I tried installing ConcreteCMS 9.4.8 from scratch, uploading only the files, and using the database from the previous site, but the problem persisted.

Is the database the problem?

Could someone please advise me?

# Concrete Version
Core Version - 9.4.8
Version Installed - 9.4.8
Database Version - 20250827152432

# Hostname
sv10000.xserver.jp

# System User
dsds

# Environment
production

# Database Information
Version: 10.5.13-MariaDB-log
SQL Mode:
Character Set: utf8mb4
Collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci

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I doubt CSS problems are being caused by your PHP version or database. Are you using the latest version of Modena?

There are potentially several different methods for applying CSS to page elements. If you’re not the only website editor, a legacy setting or someone else could have applied CSS with another method that’s overriding your settings. I suggest reviewing the page source and checking all the CSS stylesheet input files and style tags. Next, I suggest using browser developer tools to review and test overriding the CSS for the elements you’re trying to edit. It should give you the information you need to determine the source of the CSS being applied.

A work-around option for theme CSS preset/setting issues:

I use the Theme Styling Tool to tweak CSS. If you’re able to adjust the CSS to what you desire with the developer tools, add that CSS to the Theme Styling Tool to make it permanent. Some settings may require an !important declaration to override settings being applied from other sources. Also, I suggest starting all declarations with .ccm-page to make sure they don’t get applied to ConcreteCMS editor elements.

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Thank you.
Of course, I’m using the latest version of Modena.
I apologize for bothering you with a reply, but what you’re thinking might be completely different.

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Do you get this dialog box when you [Save Styles] to the customized skin?

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Also, is the Modena theme being used for the entire site?

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Thank you.
The Modena theme is applied to the entire site.
The version is also the latest.
I’m asking for your guidance because it’s not working.

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It’s a bit time-consuming, but it seems that if you configure the settings page by page using “this page,” the changes will be reflected.