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I'm trying to change the background color of a Wordpress site's footer. I used Chrome to "Inspect" the element and I saw that it was the footer-top class. So I went to Bluehost->File Manager and found the file, then I found 2 instances of the footer-top class. For both of them, I changed the color part to #000000 (I want this color). But when I save the changes, the site doesn't update. Could someone help me troubleshoot?

Strange note: I found that the link to the main.css stylesheet is this:

<link rel='stylesheet' id='css-main-css'  href='http://www.thefashban.com/wp-content/themes/akay/css/main.css?ver=4.7.1' type='text/css' media='all' />

...but what is that ?ver=4.7.1 part? I have a main.css file, but not one that ends in ?ver=4.7.1. I see that the element is taking from a file with this at the end, but I can't find it.

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The ?ver=4.7.1 is use for caching. As long as that number does not change the browser will know your css has not been updated and will get it from cache instead of making a new request.

Here is a more complete answer : Why adding version number to CSS file path?

you could disable cache in your browser (in the network tab inside chrome developer tools for example) to make sure you are loading a fresh version of your file.

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