Problem Getting Child Theme Functions.php Right

(@oscarguy)

Weird, the parts that were a problem > were fixed when I put them in code here. That’s very odd.

Thread Starter

(@oscarguy)

I copied and pasted what generated above and it still does not work. Here’s the contents of the functions.php file as I currently have it. I am using the “Live Preview” to make sure that it works before going further and it still doesn’t.


<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    $parent_style = 'frontier'; 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'frontier-child',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link' );
function modify_read_more_link() {
return 'Click here to continue reading this article';
}
?>

This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by OscarGuy.

roscfi

(@roscfi)

Hey guy! What are you trying to do? A child Theme?

Thread Starter

(@oscarguy)

Yes.

roscfi

(@roscfi)

Please, take a look in your browser inspector and see in the network tab what is the state of the style.css, if there is a style.css with status 404, try to activate another theme and then activate again your child-theme.

Thread Starter

(@oscarguy)

So the code above is correct? That’s what I’m trying to verify. I am previewing the changes with the live preview functionality of the themes as I don’t want to activate the child and find the entire site goes down.

roscfi

(@roscfi)

I’ve take a look in the Child Theme page of WordPress and at a child theme I’ve created. I think you should put the string “frontier-style” as it says in the comment after the $parent_style variable for the Twenty Fifteen Theme. I let my child-style as it is in the code in the Child Theme WordPress page.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
 
    $parent_style = '<strong>frontier-style</strong>'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by roscfi. Reason: Make it clearly

Thread Starter

(@oscarguy)

Here’s how it currently looks (I may have modified it at some point) and I have changed it to show frontier-style where indicated and it still does not appear to work.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
     $parent_style = 'frontier-style';
     wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'frontier-child',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link' );
function modify_read_more_link() {
return 'Click here to continue reading this article';
}
?>

roscfi

(@roscfi)

You’re calling a function twice with the add action.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {...

And I think that’s not going to works well.
Try to replace the code you have in your functions.php for:

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
 
    $parent_style = 'frontier-style'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

roscfi

(@roscfi)

@oscarguy any news?

Thread Starter