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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 could child theme be different than parent theme if I haven't made changes?
This is possibly because you had a menu assigned, then you changed themes, and now there is no longer a menu assigned. Because Wordpress generates slightly different html for an assigned menu than for …
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how to call files in child theme?
All your included js and css files are included using relative paths. This is bad.
You'll find that the use of a child theme is irrelevant, as it is horribly broken with and without a child theme.
S …
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How to handle a large child theme
I assume this will be a lot of extra load on the site to have all these extra files? Or are the parent theme files "skipped" and "doesn't count" if I have them in my child theme?
if the child theme …
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Child theme css not loading when declared in parent functions
Because you're using a subfolder path that starts with a /.
The official WP.org developer doc for add_editor_style has an example of how to add a stylesheet from a subfolder in the comments:
/**
* Re …
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Is it possible to make grandchild themes?
Sort of "Yes" as a technicality, in practice No.
You can specify a child parent as the parent theme, nothing stops this, and WordPress would attempt to use it.
However
You will run into major issues, …
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Should template files be copied to the child theme for editing?
You should only copy the files you intend to change, otherwise when the parent theme is updated, it will load the out of date files in the child theme that you didn't edit
Think of it this way, any t …
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CSS in child theme not getting loaded
Parent vs Child Themes
get_template_directory_uri always refers to the parent theme you can verify this as you always should when things don't load as expected by looking in the console in the browse …
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How can I override a require() used in functions.php of parent theme to my child theme
This is not possible, require is a PHP language construct, it's not a WordPress function, and can't be filtered or overriden via WordPress APIs
These are your options:
If the functionality you want …
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How to enqueue multiple style sheets into my child theme in wordpress (oceanwp)
You had the right idea, but made an unfortunate typo: . './custom/navbar.css'.
Removing the additional fullstop should correct the URL, otherwise you were succesfully enqueing a stylesheet, the code …
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get_stylesheet_directory() in child theme breaks parent scripts
The problem your facing here can be solved by changing the function being used:
get_stylesheet_directory will give you the directory of the current active theme, aka the location of the active style …
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Including code from other themes in child themes
The canonical answer is that themes are for visuals only, the rest go in plugins.
In practice though, people bundle everything in a theme because it's easier to sell a zip you upload to the themes fol …
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Ajax call returning 0 in page template
3 major problems:
extract, is dangerous and introduces major security issues. It's also completely unnecessary
return instead of wp_die, you're meant to echo the output and then exit/die. If you do n …
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How can I override file featured-image-first.php of Avada theme
Child themes let you override templates loaded via WordPress' template loading mechanism, e.g. get_template_part or the main theme templates such as index.php and single.php.
But they can't be used to …
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Override Dokan Includes File in Child Theme
Child themes let you override templates, but these are not templates you're attempting to override. You can't drop in arbitrary files and override the parent theme, and WordPress can't do it's magic w …
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Is it possible to override only a part of another plugin's / theme's js (asset) file?
Unfortunately no, you can dequeue the file as the other questions answer suggests and enqueue your own version, otherwise you'd need to load it and then try to modify the loaded code at runtime, which …
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