Questions tagged [child-theme]
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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Post Navigation Elementor
I'm using Elementor and ACF on a website and have a custom post type for events. In elementor I have the posts on the archive page set to order by the ACF start date field. When the user clicks the ...
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How to add meta fields to custom taxonomy add/edit page?
I have a custom taxonomy 'issue'. I tried to add some meta fields to the add/edit issue pages in the dashboard using the method explained by Ohad Raz (https://en.bainternet.info/wordpress-taxonomies-...
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How to set the background color of a template part (Header/Footer) in Twenty Twentythree?
In Wordpress's shiny new Twenty Twentythree theme, how can you assign a background color to the header or foother template parts?
Can this be done in a child theme - through theme.json? Or somehow ...
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remove_action() hook not working
On my child theme,
I created this:
remove_action('woocommerce_single_product_summary','woocommerce_template_single_excerpt',20);
add_action('woocommerce_single_product_summary', '...
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child index.php does not overwrite parent index.php in twenty fourteen theme
I am using the twenty fourteen theme to create a child theme and want to make changes to the index.php, but when I copy the index.php file to the child theme's directory and edit it, it doesn't change ...
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How to enqueue stylesheets in child-theme functions.php?
I know this topic is old hat, but I still got issues with that.
I use the elementor child-theme and try to enqueue the following stylesheets
hello-child-theme-folder: style.css
hello-child-theme/...
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Pseudo class :before don't working in a specific button
Currently, i'm building an ecommerce and a small button was running with pseudo class :before suddenly stopped working.The site run WP with Divi and Woocomerce. I wish the bellow code back to run:
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Custom Theme Additonal CSS "<" and ">" are transformed to ">" and "<"
Im using Elementor Child Theme and in there im sometimes writing "Additional CSS" and till yesterday everyting was working correct. But since today "<" and ">" are ...
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Loading my main.js file from my child theme
I have built a child theme out from the original parent theme. Having on completion learnt that it is standard industry practice to build a child theme (preferably from the start.)
I have managed to ...
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How to use parent theme's enqueue methods
According to the codex, when creating a child theme, you have to manually enqueue the parent theme's scripts.
My parent theme has logic to conditionally display various css files, cached css, and ...
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Add custom function to a theme with child theme's functions.php
I am using a theme Indigo and have it working fine, in a child theme configuration. I want to add a custom function. Unlike the child style.css, I have read that you don't need to import the parent ...
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Why won't my Custom CSS Load
I'm in the process of adding a jQuery plugin to a site I'm working on. Needless to say it requires loading a custom script; also a custom stylesheet.
Starting with the stylesheet I've been ...
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How to override html codes in wordpress?
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class( array('list-article', 'clearfix') ); ?>>
<div class="list-article-thumb">
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( ...
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Add Javascript code to functions.php childtheme
I would like to add the following JavaScript function to a wordpress child theme (functions.php). Unfortunately I am not able to make it.
Function:
$.fn.cityAutocomplete.transliterate = function (s) {
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How to disable the autozoom on mouseover for the product image in Storefront theme of WooCommerce?
I'm currently using the WooCommerce plugin with the Storefront theme on my WordPress site. On the single product pages, the main product image has a default mouseover behavior that I want to modify.
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Modifying child theme's header
I'm a noob.
I have copied the header.php from the parent theme, I have added some snippets and things work. However, I would like to be able to add those same snippets either using a plugin or via ...
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why is translation not working on theme?
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I am using the theme Rookie from Sportpress.
I created a child theme.
Translation files are existing, especially german in my case.
Wordpress is set to german language.
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Unable to remove action from parent theme via child theme
The Blank Slate theme (in its functions.php) adds a jQuery script to each page, which I would like to remove:
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add_action( 'wp_footer', 'blankslate_footer' );
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How to display home page last modified date in anywhere of wordpress theme?
i just display my recent published and modified posts in homepage (index.php). how can i display last modified date of my home page?
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How to move the customizations done in the Editor to my child theme?
Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor -> 3-dots menu -> Export lets one download a zip file, which contains the folders parts and templates that - according to various online tutorials - ...
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Disable astra_get_search_form from generating in header [closed]
I have a website with an Astra child theme.
Astra is generating a search form in my header.
The form is generated 4x by Astra, and as the method="get".
I don't use this form, and there is ...
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Overwrite template-tags.php in child theme
I would like to overwrite some content which is located in (inc/) template-tags.php file on parent theme.
Content need to be changed is in function footer_content_widget_area in template-tags.php ...
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Calling Category name without the link
I have looked to see if there is a simple function that only returns the name of a category on a post. I am looking to output it as a subheading for a list of posts but do not want it as a link and ...
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Include widget file in functions.php of child theme
I've created a widget for WP 5.9.3, based on an online tutorial, which I'd got working okay, but it relied on having all the code in the child theme's functions.php, which started looking a bit messy.
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How to overwrite a thrid party block's css in a child theme?
Consider a Wordpress (6.6) child theme based on the default Twenty Twenty Four theme: How do you style form fields used in third party blocks?
Just copy and pasting a modified version of the third ...
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Why would adding a template file to a child theme cause an error in template-loader.php?
Per wordpress best practices, I created a child theme for an existing theme I have. Everything works fine until I try to add a template file which follows WP's template hierarchy conventions. For ...
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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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Edited Child Theme's "header.php" but it doesn't appear to change the file
So I logged into FTP and navigated to /wp-content/themes/MyChildTheme/ and edited the header.php file. I saved the file and uploaded it and I can confirm the file has changed because if I check via ...
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Child theme is not rendering parent and own javascripts (but css loaded properly, js not)
I have a child theme and a quite empty function.php. The CSS from the parent is picked up by the child theme, but the whole JS section from the parent theme is not rendered in the DOM at all. (I am ...
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Add head and body function for google tag manager in child theme
I've got a child theme activated and I don't see any head and body in my child theme to place the GTM snippet.
How do I do this? I rather not paste in the whole head and body in the child theme to ...
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function of parent not working in childtheme
I have a plugin used on a parent theme which uses shortcode. The plugin (shortcode) works on the parent theme but when I switch to child theme it no longer works. I've only added the child theme code ...
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AJAX numerical pagination problem in TwentyFifteen-child theme
I want to create an AJAX numeric pagination. And found code in a website. And it works perfectly at first click event, but on the second click it doesn't.
If I click in pagination page 4, it works ...
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How can i change the class of a post from a theme?
According to this link…
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/post_class/#Add_Classes_By_Filters
…i can add a filter to change the class(es) of a post. How can I do this from a theme? I ...
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How to Use Webpack with WordPress Script Modules and Enqueue a Custom Class
I am working on a WordPress project using version 6.5, which introduced support for JavaScript modules. I have a parent theme that exports a JavaScript class, and I want to import this class in a ...
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Can't make an external api call in php side of wordpress child theme
Edited 07-14-24 to show permission callback in api
Edit 2: showed my fatal error
I'm new to making api calls in wordpress. I need to make an api call through the backend to a 3rd party api. I can't do ...
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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare load_stylesheets() (previously declared in
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I’ve declared a basic child theme. As I create a function to enqueue stylesheets, my website crashes and gives me a Fatal error: Cannot redeclare thando_stylesheets() (previously ...
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Migrating a Bootstrap 3 Website to WordPress
I'm in the process of migrating a legacy Bootstrap 3 website with around 300 pages to WordPress. I'm planning to use GeneratePress as the theme and WPBakery Page Builder along with some additional ...
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For a Child Theme, do I duplicate the parent style.css and then add my child css?
I'm creating and installing a child theme for the first time. There are only a few edits to the style.css and one to the functions.php file. Do I need to copy the entire parent style.css into the ...
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Twenty Twenty One update changes dom classes and breaks my child theme
I built my first child theme and am paying the price of my ignorance.
It basically breaks all the time. Every update to the main theme (Twenty Twenty One) seems to change some class name that my js ...
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Why does using wp_register_style without wp_enqueue load and print CSS tags in the front-end?
I have this piece of code that registers a CSS in a child theme and when visiting the front-end my_css is actually included. Why is that ? I thought that registering meant registering for later use to ...
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Live Preview while customizing is not showing the updates while editing in WordPress
I'm working on a small website in WordPress, when clicking the "customize" button, it will open a page that shows a "Live Preview" of the website and allows you to add custom CSS ...
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How to override filter in child theme?
I'm trying to override a parent theme filter in a child theme; I must have the syntax wrong as the override is being completely ignored. Here's what's in my child theme's functions.php:
//* remove ...
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Can't disable child theme style
I got problems with my twentytwenty child theme and hope, that someone can help me.
In order to optimize my website for speed, I'd like to use critical css as inline code. To do that, I wanted to call ...
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Trying to insert widget code into theme function
The site I am working on has a function in the theme (Botiga) that creates a wrapper row that displays a sorting dropdown for the items below. The default output is the dropdown displays in the right ...
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Proper way to load styles using a child theme
I decided to start using Elementor Hello theme for building my websites. In the past, I always edited style, templates and other theme files directly from the original theme directory, but I decided ...
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How to move custom icons from parent theme to the child theme
I have two sets of custom font icons that from my understanding are being loaded by two php files of the theme that i am making a child theme of : admin-style.php & icons.php
admin-style.php :
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Child theme's functions.php not being read (child theme's autoload.php not being run)
Our child theme's functions.php contains:
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
However, the files that autoload.php loads are not being loaded, and a fatal error occurs. '/vendor/autoload....
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enqueue_custom_scripts isn't working
I am attempting to use javascript to activate hotpots I have made in Wordpress, (using HTML and CSS but when trying to enqueue my custom script. Nothing is happening.
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Wordpress child theme widget customization - Eduma
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I'm in a bit of a struggle at the moment so I could use some help.
The thing is, I need to fix some fields for registration in the Eduma theme Eduma theme has it's own child theme called Eduma-child,...
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Where did my Theme Editor go?
I have 2 blogs, both are versions 3.x
One of them, "Blog 1" is a multi-user blog. I can't edit the themes under Appearance->Editor , because it doesn't appear.
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