Child theme, obeying multiple style sheets in parent theme (specifically images)

I’m not hugely experienced in this so I have to ask, then what is the ‘correct’ way to resolve this?

I created a child theme and started with the style sheet and the images folder (so I could change the color scheme).

All other files are in the parent theme. The header is calling all these style sheets using exactly this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/css/normalize.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/css/skeleton.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/css/touchTouch.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/css/768.css" />

Does that mean I need to save a copy of header.php to my child theme folder?

Paul – I got the theme from a ‘trusted source’ :-\

Are you saying if you are creating a child theme (from whatever parent theme) or if you are hacking a theme, you can’t ask general questions that are in regards to using WordPress functions here on this forum?

So with a child theme activated, you need to have a copy over of the whole parent’s style.css in child theme folder AND the images folder with the same set of images.

Yes, I created a child directory, uploaded a copy of the style.css and the images folder (after editing the color of the images) to the child directory.

THEN I copied header.php into the child theme’s folder and have been trying to figure out WHAT FUNCTION to use to use to get it to call all the style sheets from the child theme folder.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo

‘template_url’ / ‘template_directory’ – URL of the active theme’s directory (‘template_directory’ was a local path before 2.6; see get_theme_root() and get_template() for hackish alternatives.) Within child themes, both get_bloginfo(‘template_url’) and get_template() will return the parent theme directory. Consider echoing get_template_directory_uri() instead (for the parent template directory) or get_stylesheet_directory_uri() (for the child template directory).

Oooook then. I’ll start another thread about best practices dealing with multiple parent style sheets in child themes. :-\

WPyogi – nooooo, no sir, I did not. And that is why I come here to ask questions. So I can learn.

All I know is most posts I’ve found in regards to modifying the look of a theme include someone posting “DON’T EDIT THE THEME, MAKE A CHILD THEME!!!”.

I didn’t come here to ask for ‘support’ as in ‘someone please fix this for me’. I came here to learn something. I pulled apart this theme because I was curious about how it was doing the resizing for handhelds compared to another responsive theme I’ve got. When I set up a child theme that’s when I noticed how all the style sheets were being called in.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-it-possible-to-edit-html-in-a-child-theme?replies=8

Ok, perhaps TemplateMonster should out right state their themes are not GPL… cuz that’s where we got it from. :-\