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I have created a simple child theme to modify the Minimal theme by Elegant Themes.

The child theme loads with the changes I have made, but the links to pages in the header are all messed up. Rather than the page links I have selected appearing in the header, links to all categories appear in addition to links to these pages.

Even if the only modification I make is as follows:

@import url("../Minimal/style.css");

a {
    text-decoration: underline !important;
}

The links at the top are still messed up and the category links are improperly displayed in addition to the page links, even though I am not making any other changes. (But the underline does display.)

What is causing this issue?

EDIT: Clarified that category links are what is being display incorrectly.

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  • Messed up = ? Is this a css or a WP Q? Doesn't elegant themes offer support?
    – kaiser
    Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 14:17
  • Messed up in the sense that displayed links should not be changing just based on making a simple css change.
    – Oren Hizkiya
    Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 14:18
  • Elegant themes does offer support but I thought this was more of an issue with how child themes work in wordpress and I'd like to try to isolate the issue before I go to them.
    – Oren Hizkiya
    Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 14:19
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    I would say that this is a question for ElegantThemes support. Without looking at the Theme's code, I would guess that the problem is lack of inherent Child-Theme support in the Minimal Theme codebase - e.g. using get_stylesheet_directory() instead of get_template_directory(), and the like.
    – Chip Bennett
    Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 14:27
  • Thanks for the info--I am going to contact them and I will post here when I get an answer in case someone else has the same problem.
    – Oren Hizkiya
    Commented Sep 16, 2011 at 14:36

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I think your problem may be similar to this question: How could child theme be different than parent theme if I haven't made changes?

When you activate a child theme (assuming it's properly setup), you will inherit all of the parent theme's styles (and usually widgets), but you will not inherit:

  • Menu assignment to theme locations
  • Theme options (sometimes, but I seem to recall Elegant Themes is an instance that doesn't inherit options).

Hence, you're probably seeing the expected behavior, and it's not a problem with the child theme or WordPress, but rather a change in settings stemming from a new theme being activated.

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