Title: basic problem with child theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# basic problem with child theme

 *  [swestland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swestland/)
 * (@swestland)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-problem-with-child-theme/)
 * I have just moved my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. The new site is
   [http://colourware.org/](http://colourware.org/)
 * I have used the twentythirteen style and everything looks pretty good. However,
   I wanted to modify one page because I have an amazon astore that doesn’t quite
   fit with the sidebar on the right. So I need to make a page that is wider.
 * I decided to use a child theme. I created a directory called twentythirteen-child
   in my themes directory and in that director I put a single file called style.
   css. The contents of that file were
 * `
    /* Theme Name: Twenty Thirteen Child Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-
   thirteen-child/ Description: Twenty Thirteen Child Theme Author: John Doe Author
   URI: http://example.com Template: twentythirteen Version: 1.0.0 */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../twentythirteen/
   style.css”);
 * Now what I would like to do is add a file called page-bookstore.php
 * However, before I changed anything I activated the childtheme to check everything
   was working. When I activate it it works but two menu items disappear including
   Home. When I activate the parent theme again the menu items come back.
 * Now I could start adding these menu items back in again and correcting any other
   quirks. But it seems wrong. It seems to me that I am doing something wrong because
   my child theme inherents the style of the parent theme and everything should 
   stay the same. Right? Or have I got that wrong?
 * Many thanks for any comments
    Steve

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-problem-with-child-theme/#post-4355689)
 * Custom menus are stored on a per-theme basis. So you would need to apply any 
   custom menu to your new child theme via Appearance -> Menus

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