Question about child themes

  • Philbeaux

    (@philbeaux)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    I’m working with a theme that I plan on doing some pretty heavy modifying to and I have a question about the child theme.
    I installed a child theme …. made a folder and copied the styles.css file to it.
    Now, do I activate the parent theme or the child theme?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I activate the parent theme or the child theme?

    Child Theme.

    Thread Starter Philbeaux

    (@philbeaux)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, let me make sure I have this right.
    Activate Child theme.
    And I assume all I have to do is copy the respective file (style.css, header.php, whatever.php) to the child theme folder and edit that file?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Yes apart from style.css and functions.php.

    To override styles in the style.css file rewrite the CSS into your Child Theme style.css file.

    To override/ extend/ rewrite functions in the parent theme functions.php file see http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php

    JS files will need to be enqueued in your Child Theme functions.php file.

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