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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add_action works outside condition but not inside it
I am developing a theme framework for my own purposes.
So this time i am facing a problem, that is add_action works out side conditional.
add_action( 'meanz_before_main_wrap', '...
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PHP “warning include_once(): Failed to open stream” Simple HTML DOM in Wordpress Child Theme
I am trying to include SIMPLE_HTML_DOM Library for my WordPress site. Unfortunately I get an warning.
Below is my file tree in child theme
include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/html/wp-content/...
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Wordpress Staging site is redirecting to live and lost the child theme
I had a staging version for a WordPress site that contained a child theme as the main one, and everything was working well. After a few weeks, the staging site suddenly keeps redirecting to the live ...
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Browser stacks different versions of style.css
I am working with a child theme from 'Astra'. I am editing 'style.css' of my child theme for styling my website. I added this code to my child's functions.php' file to enqueue the father-child styles.
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Theme functions don't work as expected in partial included via get_template_part() after custom query using Ajax [duplicate]
I am developing an custom theme which could be a child theme of any arbitrary theme out there that has custom theme functions defined.
The home page is simply configured as list of latest posts. I ...
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Understanding the child / parent theme relationship
I am looking to edit the header.php file on my website. My parent theme has a header.php file. I copied that file to my child theme and added the necessary code. It seems to be working.
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What's a good way to allow overwriting files within a child theme if I want the same folder structure?
My parent theme has a structure like this Core\Utilities\Gallery.php. It's in the namespace of Product\Theme\Core and the file is loaded using composer's autoload. I thought to myself, I have a great ...
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the file placed in the child theme is not included
I have modified the theme.php file located in the parent theme in the "Includes" folder, and I have placed it in the child theme also in the "Includes" folder, but my changes are not included. ...
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How can I & how do I change text displayed in comment via child theme
This isn't a specific theme I'm asking for, well, yes it is, but I assume the answer would work on any theme..
I've recently learned little about child theme, but I'm not understanding how to change ...
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How Do I Unhook This Parent Theme Function?
In a parent theme I have a function like this, that removes hyperlinks from comments:
function preprocess_comment_remove_url( $commentdata ) {
//some code...
return $commentdata;
}
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Is there another way to customize a parent template file besides adding the file to a child theme?
In the 10+ years that I have been working with WordPress child themes, I have never seen a problem with a template file being copied into a child theme and customized, until now. There were function ...
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Best way to edit/change comment-template.php without changing the core
I've been modifying the include/comment-temple.php file, and since that modification will vanish upon updates
Is there anyway to just simply copy the comment-template.php file from the included/ ...
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Swap SVG icons in child themes
The Twenty Nineteen theme uses inline SVG for its icons instead of icon fonts. The icons are added to the HTML code with the TwentyNineteen_SVG_Icons::get_svg() function.
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WordPress filter load_textdomain_mofile not working inside a child theme's functions.php but works form inside a plugin
Function in a plugin is behaving differently than function in the functions.php inside a child theme.
I have a custom simple plain plugin with nothing but the following code in it and it works ...
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How to load parent theme template parts in child theme
I was wondering how can I load parent theme template parts through child theme after customization. I have created three custom template for my theme and they are working fine. But now I want to load ...
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Child them function.php 'parent-style': should I name this as parent theme name?
When creating child them and setting up the initial function.php content:
<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = ...
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Copying a modified theme from one wordpress site to another wordpress site [closed]
So, I have one website which was using a theme called "theme-xyz". In past, I directly made modifications to this theme, in header, footer and style. Now, I want to copy this modified theme to a new ...
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changing parent theme into child theme
I inherited a site that didn't use a child theme, and now it needs to be updated. Can I take the original parent theme, change the style sheet header, copy it into the root, delete everything but wp-...
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How do I call in a category title on a category page in a child theme?
I would like to pull in the Category Title as an H1 tag, but I don't know if it is possible to do without modifying the Parent Theme. For example I would like the category for this page [https://...
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Is it possible to add a ribbon in the background of h1 on every page?
I want to customize my h1 and to put a ribbon in the background like in the example bellow.
Example: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/ribbon/
I'm not quite sure if/how it's possible to make all ...
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Create a post in custom post type using field in registration form after users submit form
As part of this project i have already created an Institute custom post type which i can see in the admin dashboard.
What i want to do now is link it to the registration form. The logic is that when ...
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Widget is displayed in two places
I want to add a widget below page content in my child theme. I used a function from here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes and the widget is displayed where I want:
but it is also ...
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Started getting warning message following host's PHP upgrade
I am using a child theme of TwentyTwelve (the customer is always right).
I recently started getting the following warning bot at the top of the Dashboard and on the Jetpack panel of the Dashboard:
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How to filter, restrict and return posts based on custom user meta information
On this online platform project i have requested all users to add in their school title.
In the user dashboard there is a posts section which currently shows all posts. I want to only show posts that ...
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How to first edit in local Wordpress editor on page and the add code?
I started a local WordPress site using DesktopServer. (Atom for coding). And I want to start creating the new website by first creating a "page" in local WordPress and creating a basic layout, and ...
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Overrite parent functions using child functions
So I've tried a few different ways to override a method inside the parent theme and I'm not having much luck at all.
So here is the structure:
themes/
- wp-starter
-- custom_header.php
- wp-...
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How can I access variables from theme in child theme? [closed]
I am using a WordPress theme (Kalium Theme) as a base and extending it with my own child theme, which includes javascript & php files.
The parent theme uses a image carousel plugin (Flickity) to ...
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Can't modify plugin function
Is there any possible way that could help me overwrite or redeclare a function inside a plugin? I tried to create a folder with its name inside the child theme, but it did nothing.
The original path ...
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Getting a list of the PHP files included to generate a page
Some commercial themes have become a real mess: the header may be created by the files in the theme folder or by child theme or maybe from a legacy folder which is located inside a legacy plugin.
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How to fix error message to edit sidebar widget text on a livesite childtheme?
My WordPress livesite says "An error has occurred. Please reload the page and try again" when I try to edit the sidebar widget text of a twentysixteen child theme. I copied the website to localhost ...
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How do I check or test a WordPress Auto Year Change Script?
How can you test a WordPress copyright year that is generated dynamically or through PHP, meaning when the year changes without waiting an entire year to see if it changes? I do not know anything ...
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Why <?php echo get_template_directory_uri() ?> still output /wp-content/themes/twentynineteen?
I've developed some twentynineteen-child template. Today, I need to convert my last child-template into a template stand-alone.
I removed the following line from the style.css file:
Template: ...
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How can i add product Accessories from front-end using custom php form?
I have a custom HTML form I am saving the product data using WordPress-Woocommerce functions.
I am able to save all the product details but getting issue in saving Product Accessories ( please check ...
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Reusable functions and tools (Framework)
I do have a few PHP custom functions that I use almost every time on my applications. Those functions are not all related to WordPress, but some are and thus need that WP is initialized before I can ...
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Can I create a child theme from a premium theme without losing my posts and page etc that I already have?
I have a Wordpress installation with the theme premium, in case I created a custom page to be used, however as this site was already in production I ended up following it that way, even though I know ...
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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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twentysixteen child theme - responsive menu - ham icon button not working - Cannot read property 'classList' of null
I am trying to convert this site http://buildandtest.atspace.cc/ into twentysixteen child theme. It appears that /js/menu.js in my child theme is not working as nothing happens when the ham icon ...
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Custom Field created in add_meta_boxes reappearing itself again in the default Custom Metabox
I succeed in creating a metabox with custom field inside, and I restrict it to appear in a custom post type.
//define metabox
function product_info_en() {
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Which action is triggered when a theme was modified?
I want to intercept plugin changes, but no action hook listed in the Action Reference seems to do it. I tried after_switch_theme which is triggered only after changing from one theme to another, and ...
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Override the core function locate_template
I would like to override the Wordpress core function locate_template().
I want the function to also search an additinal plugin directory for a template file.
I don't see any filters inside the ...
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Add colors to existing color palette without replacing it
Using add_theme_support( 'editor-color-palette' ) one can replace the color palette in the Gutenberg editor by a custom one:
add_theme_support( 'editor-color-palette', array(
array(
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Auto generate excerpt from ACF field on a CPT that does not support excerpt or content
I have a CPT which contains only 4 wysiwyg fields created with ACF. The CPT does not support standard WP excerpt or content fields.
I would like the CPT to generate an excerpt automatically from one ...
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Enqueue custom css file on specific page
So I've been messing with this for a while now and I don't understand how I'm unable to pull in my style file properly by registering and calling it at all.
Here is my method:
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Use custom template on custom post type
So I'm kinda stuck on something that I'm trying to achieve and unsure how to even target it, so below I will explain all that I have and what I have tried.
So I'm using the Genesis Framework and a ...
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Custom Background by Page IDs
I use TwentyTwent theme and want to change its background colour by page IDs.
I'm not sure but when I check the functions.php, I see below lines which are related to background colours:
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How can I override a require() used in functions.php of parent theme to my child theme
I have created a child theme for a Theme, Every thing works fine, except there are some files being required in functions.php of parent theme which I want to override it from the child theme. They ...
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Genesis Child Theme - Customize body
So I created a custom post type and I've also created a custom page called page-profile.php that follows the WordPress templating.
Here is the code inside page-profile.php:
<?php
$args = array(
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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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Avoid loading css from parent theme
In a parent theme (Foodica Pro) functions.php I have function foodica_scripts(), where css and js are loaded in page header, including:
wp_enqueue_style( 'media-queries', get_template_directory_uri() ....
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Child theme style.css versioning
I've been breaking my head on this one. I have a child theme and made changes to the style.css document. These changes did not show up in the reload of the page because there is no mention of version ...
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