Title: Child Theme
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Child Theme

 *  Resolved [sarahweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarahweb/)
 * (@sarahweb)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/)
 * I love this theme – its brill and is working so very well – however I couldn’t
   get a child theme to work – is it possible? As I don’t want to be making updates
   that get written over by your theme updates?
 * I updated the style.css/screenshot.png with all the data and it just ignored 
   it and said theme broken 🙁
 * I do use child themes all the time so not sure what I did wrong this time?
 * This theme would be perfect if a child theme is possible?
 * Thank you
    Sarah

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 *  Theme Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772439)
 * A child theme should be possible. Do it all the time.
 * You should create a folder containing at least a css file and a screenshot and
   upload it to folder wp-content > themes
 * The css file should contain at least this:
 *     ```
       /*
        Theme Name:     GridBullettin Child
        Description:    GridBullettin Child Theme
        Author:         Guido van der Leest
        Template:       gridbullettin
       */
   
       /* Imports styles from the parent theme */
       @import url('../gridbullettin/style.css');
       ```
   
 * Note: a better way to import styles from parent theme is to create a funcions
   file in your child theme with this:
 *     ```
       <?php
       function enqueue_child_styles() {
           wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
       }
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_child_styles' );
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Guido
 *  Theme Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772499)
 * Closed this because of no replies.
 * Guido
 *  Thread Starter [sarahweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarahweb/)
 * (@sarahweb)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772500)
 * So sorry I was sure that I had replied
 * yes child theme does work using your details above – although with correct spelling
   of bulletin 🙂
 * I have noticed that the font sizes can be a bit weird if I don’t use the whole
   CSS but not yet dug around as to why
 * Its still a fab working theme – so thank you and sorry again for not updating
   this post to say so
 * Sarah
 *  Theme Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772501)
 * I am very ashamed… I was not able to spell my own theme name correctly 🙁
 * It should use the font sizes from parent theme if you don’t have other sizes 
   in child theme stylesheet. Sometimes a plugin has it’s own font sizes, which 
   can cause a ‘conflict’.
 * Guido
 *  Thread Starter [sarahweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarahweb/)
 * (@sarahweb)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772502)
 * it happens!! easily!
 * yeah the font size is strange – it seems to inherit “higher” up rather than flowing
   down and sometimes I have having to give a font-size:1.0em to lower tags which
   I would not normally need to do (like <p> <span> if the P has a large font size
   the span tag reverts to the body font size rather than P tag – anyway its hardly
   as issue just something I need to check on 🙂
 * Sarah
 *  Theme Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/)
 * (@guido07111975)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-137/#post-5772503)
 * Hi Sarah,
 * No idea how to solve this right now, but an example would help me to understand
   this issue. Changing line-height might help?
 * Guido

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