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  • Resolved erm1981

    (@erm1981)


    I really like the theme but am having trouble when i go to create a child theme. Does this theme support it? This is the first theme i have had trouble with. When i create the child theme it will only display widgets or plugins but not any of the custom header/footers/etc.

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  • Hi there!

    It should support child themes just fine. We offer support thought our Make Plus offering, which includes a base child theme. We’d love to give you more assistance if you move to the premium product.

    I’m having the same problem, getting a child theme to work with Make. If anyone had this problem and solved it, I’d appreciate hearing how.

    Can you give us any specifics about the issues that you are facing?

    Yes, thanks for inquiring.

    WordPress: 3.9.1

    Plugins: none

    Browsers: Firefox, Chrome, IE – Most recent versions of each, same behavior in each.

    Child theme file: Downloaded from Theme foundry, installed per “WordPress Child Theme Basics” instructions page on Theme Foundry web site. File is default, as unzipped from TF, no CSS or other changes to child style.css

    Header Background Image: desk.jpg 1600 x 900, (stock photo)

    Navigation menu in header: Name – Top Bar Menu, Location – Primary Menu

    Header Layout: Navigation Below

    Header Bar Content Layout: Default

    Show Title/Logo on: Left

    Header Bar Text Color: Empty (none)

    Header Backround Color: Empty (none)

    Static Front Page: Displays – Latest Posts

    Other notes: Without child-theme, works as expected – Header background looks as expected. Nav Menu contains two items added during creation, it looks/works as expected. Header Bar is transparent, search field is visible.

    Symptoms: After activating Make child theme – Header background not shown. Nav menu moves from below to right side, Nav menu items list changes from two items in Top Bar Menu to showing list of four pages in web site, (all pages). Header Bar color changes from transparent to black.

    Thanks for any help you can provide. If you need any other information, I will provide it if I can.

    Hi there!

    This is actually the expected behavior of WordPress. Technically, the child theme is a separate theme, so it has its own theme options. Options that you have configured in the parent theme will not carry over. Unfortunately this means that you’ll have to reconfigure the header and other options once you switch to the child theme.

    There’s actually some discussion over whether this should be the expected behavior. There’s even a Trac ticket for it:

    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27177

    Thanks very much for the info.

    Perhaps it was my bad for not realizing that. I expected the child style.css to simply overload, It didn’t occur to me that WordPress would not execute the previous Customizations of the parent theme.

    Per your comments, I’ve reproduced my Make Customization options in the Make-child options, and it seems to be working fine. I haven’t yet done extensive testing, but so far, it’s working perfectly.

    By the way, I really like the way Make allows me to see changes immediately in the Customizaion page of Appearances. It’s all integrated well and so far has worked flawlessly. Huge time-saver. Sweeeet. I eagerly await seeing what future versions of Make bring to the party.

    Again, thanks for the info, now I’m off to continue my evaluation of Make with some of my other web sites…

    Anonymous User 9936702

    (@anonymized-9936702)

    You’re welcome! We’re glad to hear you’re enjoying Make 🙂

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