Child theming is a safe way to modify a theme. A child theme inherits a "parent themes" styles and then can selectively override. This alternative to "destructive" editing allows for safe updating of the parent theme and provides an easy way to undo theme changes.
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How do WP child-themes work? [closed]
Ok, I have my main theme setup, and now I created a child theme with the name interio_child.
From these instructions I understand that you only need to add the style.css file which makes the link to ...
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Child-theme breaks site
So, I have a child-theme with nothing but the required CSS file in it. Once I activated this child-theme my entire site is down. I end up with 2 questions:
How can activating a child-theme with ...
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Run two concurrent themes in one installation
I'm trying to add a 'blog' to my established and customized wordpress installation. Goal is to have a blog page that runs a child theme of TwentyTwenty, pulling any post of the category "blog-posts"
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What are the best practices for maintaining and deploying several parent themes?
I've been trying to commission a freelancer to make me a custom website and hit a roadblock when I said I wanted a parent theme. The freelancer strongly preferred to make a child theme based on his ...
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How to remove thumbnail sizes for specific post type on a child theme?
The theme I'm using includes a slideshow that generates an additional 4 image sizes for every image that is uploaded. I don't need to have all those images being generated for every image.
Is there ...
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One Child Functions.php for Multiple Child Themes
I have a wordpress setup that I use for clients with around 30 or so child themes that they can choose from. Each child theme has it's own functions.php file currently. Is it possible to setup just ...
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Unregister Nav Menu with fallback?
I am trying to create a child theme so theme updates are much easier. I want to remove the parent theme menus and add my own. I know I can modify the header.php file (where these menus exist) and ...
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Trying to use shortcode for a plugin on custom homepage of Responsive theme
The Responsive theme has a custom home page option, with a feature content div that is defaulted to an image. I cannot get shortcode for my slideshow plugin to work in this. I can insert html just ...
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adding navigation to genesis themes
i'm following a tutorial provided here to add navigation menu, but not able to find out set of #nav in my style.css & my theme is eleven40. What we need to replace to get navigation menu?
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Developing a childtheme, how to disable the parents templates?
I am developing a simple child theme based on twentyeleven. But i notice twentyeleven has a showcase and sidebar template when you add a new page. How can i disable these templates from functions.php? ...
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Change labels of custom post type via child theme
I have a WordPress parent theme that uses a custom post type called portfolio, which I'd like to change to property.
I'd like to have all of the contextual elements changed to show property like, ...
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Is it possible to disable a function of a parent theme?
I was wondering whether it is possible to completely disable a function that is called in a parent theme's functions.php and if so, how? (Of course without deleting the function. Rather by adding ...
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Can I create multiple instances of the BuddyPress Activity Stream with separate themes?
I'm trying to take advantage of BuddyPress 1.7's new theme independence to effectively create different pages and instances of the Activity Stream with different themes.
I can use HeadSpace (an ...
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How to edit php files in Child Theme?
I created a child theme and i want to edit a php file. So i copy and paste the php file into the child's theme folder and then i edit it. But it seems that nothing changed in the site preview! In the ...
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How do I override a parent theme's language files with a child theme?
I have a parent theme and a child theme, I would like to override the spanish .mo and .po files in the parent theme (or add them if they are not present in the parent theme) with the es_ES ones in my ...
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Child theme only loads on home page
I was having the following problem:
I created a child theme, it was 'correct', technically. It even worked and displayed the proper changes, and when I navigated to sub-pages (ie not the home page), ...
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Extending arrays in parent theme without completely overriding the files
I am new to all child-theming things and trying to override an array value which is declared in one of the php files. I also don't want to override the whole php file, because it has many other ...
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Adding a widget breaks my child theme - *But I'm not calling any widgets!*
I'm trying to design a child theme, based off of twentytwelve, and I'm running into a puzzle I can't even figure out how to troubleshoot.
Basically, my theme explodes when I enable any widgets.
It ...
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add sidebar area to header of child theme
How can I add some extra sidebar locations for widgets in a child theme. The difficulty I'm having is because the parent theme uses some pretty gnarly setup to define the current sidebars.
I would ...
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Why do some pages on my site use the previous theme?
I have developed a WordPress website using a Child Theme, I started with Twenty Ten as the base, then I created a new and improved version with Twenty Eleven as the base and some new features, now I ...
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Changes in comments.php in the child theme does not show up on the site
I am trying to customize the comments template in the comments.php and so have made some changes to the code, including a call back function in wp_list_comments() (which I have defined in ...
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Color Options from Theme Customizer API not returning via get_theme_mod()
I am working with the Theme Customizer API and am going crazy trying to find the stored values. The values successfully save and update on the front-end, so they are obviously registered ...
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Insert custom fields to a custom post type
I am creating a small blog about my trekking and camping experience. Since different experiences - like campsites, treks and tour operators - have different metadata, I have created a custom post ...
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How to set thumbnail image for a (child) theme
I've created a basic child image for twentytwelve, and it works as expected. The only issue is that it does not have a thumbnail image in the themes page:
How do I set a thumbnail image for my ...
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Loading Canvas & WooCommerce translation file in child theme
I'm trying to localise a site (Canvas child theme). I already have the translated .po and .mo files.
I uploaded the WooCommerce translation files to child-theme/woocommerce/i18n/languages/ in the ...
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How does a Child Theme works?
I created a child theme and installed it but I don't know how exactly it works!
For example, in the parent theme I have the code below:
.header {
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
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some things in child theme css not overriding parent
I am writing a child theme with Blogolife as its parent. (I'm doing it on a local server, so can't show you the actual page). I have made several changes to the CSS in the child theme's "style.css" ...
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Adding a second email address to a completed order in WooCommerce
Before I ask this question, I know there is a (legitimate) hesitation to answer questions here about Woo products since they have their own support and their users should be encouraged to use that. I ...
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Child Theme activates, but nothing from parent theme displays (MAMP, Multisite)
I searched for a solution for this problem, but cannot find an answer (or exact replica of the problem)
Basically, I set up Multisite on MAMP Pro (Apache port 80, MySQL Port 3306). The set up was ...
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child theme inherticance and php autoload
I wrote this method in a parent them that will auto load a class based on the class name, thus if the class name is: SomeFolder_Folder_Folder_Class.php then it will convert that to: ...
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Child themes, over riding in the parents theme
I understand the following about functions.php:
Unlike style.css, the functions.php of a child theme does not override
its counterpart from the parent. Instead, it is loaded in addition to
the ...
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Checking for page templates in child theme
I have a simple problem I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I have a child theme with a custom page template and I'm simply trying to check weather or not the template is in use. Under normal ...
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TwentyTwelve versioning
I'm making a child theme for TwentyTwelve, but my host is caching my files, so I'm not seeing the changes I do to my style.css file.
Is there a way to version the stylesheet for my child theme?
How ...
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Is the front-page.php template reserved in wordpress twenty twelve theme?
I'm writing my first twenty twelve child theme and came across (what I think) is a strange quirk.
I modified front-page.php to have a slider using sliderjs, afterwards I decided I did not want to use ...
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WP is not using the select custom template.php that its selected for a page
I created a childtheme: Fisio
Inside I have: page-team.php with the name:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Page - Team
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<script>alert('its the team ...
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Custom Post Type in Parent Theme causing 404s [closed]
I'm customizing a theme for a client from a theme they bought off of themeforest.net. I created a child theme, where all the customization is located.
Here is the issue:
There are several custom post ...
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Overwriting TwentyTwelve template file with child theme template, but lower in the hierarchy
I've (I think) an interesting problem here. What I want to do is create a global archive page, with everything on it. Dates, authors, categories etc all on one page.
I have a child theme, with ...
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woocommerce shop page to use my custom template
Before asking the question I want to tell you that I have already asked the question in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15025213/wordpress-woocommerce-template-file-overiding
I am using woocommerce ...
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Should I ask a theme developer to use locate_template rather than require_once
I was creating a child theme today and needed to overwrite a php file which was included using this code in the themes functions.php file
require_once( get_template_directory() . ...
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Child Theme vs. Jetpack Editor
I have read that it is always desirable to create a "child theme" so that any changes I make don't get washed away if the main theme is updated.
However, one of Jetpack's features is a CSS editor ...
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Theme Customization API and child themes
I've recently developed a parent theme that makes heavy use of the Theme Customization API. Is there an easy way to port these settings when a user activates one of my child themes? Currently, the ...
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How can I block with a child theme certain pages?
I am using the Woocommerce Wordpress plugin for an E-commerce site. I want to be able to set the site in a non-ecommerce mode, ie without the cart and checkout etc etc. I know there is a plugin you ...
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how can I add an icon/image for a child theme?
I have set up a child theme of the twentyten theme. In the themes section that under the appearance, I can only see the child theme's title, author name, and a grey box above it. How can I add an ...
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Child Theme Variables
In my theme, I used this:
<div id="brickwall" data-brickinvert="<?php echo brickAlign(); ?>">
I put the code into functions.php:
function brickAlign() {
$a = "true";
return $a;
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@package & @subpackage: how to use with child themes
My problem is with @package and @subpackage.
I went to the link (What are the package and subpackage comment for?). This was the answer:
"These are PHPDoc tags - used to generate meaningful (and ...
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iPhone Safari full size & PC versions different
This site displays the correct logo at top left of the content in Chrome, but displays the incorrect logo in Safari on an iPhone, at full size browsing. The incorrect logo says "Dandelion". The ...
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wordpress every page returning 500 error
I found out I was editing themes wrong, and that I should be using child themes, so I duplicated the theme I was using, and told it to inherit off of its parent. That's about the only thing I did, I ...
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Sliding-Doors Child Theme
I'm trying to make a child theme for Sliding-Doors, a Wordpress site. I'm following all the right steps but the child theme is not showing up on my admin panel to activate it. Is it because I am using ...
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how to call files in child theme?
I created a child theme "my-theme" . In style.css I wrote nothing just the mandatory details I wrote there.
/*
Theme Name: my-theme
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme ...
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Optimal solution to develop a wordpress theme?
What i was doing previously, are as follows -
I copy the wordpress base theme (like twentytwelve in wordpress 3.5)
Rename the folder and converted index.html of my HTML to index.php for wordpress ...
