Child Theme Still Activated but Calling Parent's CSS

  • Josh Smith

    (@joshsmith01)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    I have a child theme installed and activated. I was not getting a response from my custom CSS nor any errors.

    I followed this post a and everything is working now. This method, basically calls the child’s stylesheet from the bottom of the head in the header.php.

    My question is while this method works, it is not the one recommended by WordPress Codex. So is it ok to use? Is it reliable? Why doesn’t the recommended method work? Why isn’t this method recommended?

    So many questions.

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  • CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    You want your style.css file to come in first, at the top of the head section, so that you don’t inadvertently override a plugin’s CSS.

    So you say that your parent theme’s CSS was being used, but not your child theme’s? Did you inspect the web page using a web debugging tool like Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools to see if the child theme CSS was actually not being read? If you want, you can try reverting your header.php file back to its original state and posting a link to your site, and we can take a look at it.

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