Title: Child Theme
Last modified: June 16, 2018

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# Child Theme

 *  [askrupska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askrupska/)
 * (@askrupska)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/)
 * I’ve been developing my blog and have good knowledge on HTML & CSS and feel comfortable
   making customisations to certain elements etc. however I don’t know anything 
   about php and feel really overwhelmed trying to amend anything in my php files–
   especially as my parent theme seems to be lacking specific things compared to
   other examples I have seen…but maybe I’m just not used to the language and file
   structure itself.
 * I created the child theme using the old [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   method, and as stated, it does load elements quite slow, especially images and
   occasionally the nav bar.
 * If I use the functions.php import method will this speed my issues up and if 
   so can someone look at my code and help me with how to import my styles to my
   child theme. I have looked at examples and the official wordpress instructions
   for doing so but can’t seem to get my head around it.
    So if someone could help
   me out with the functions.php code that I need that would help me so much.
 * Thanks again
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fchild-theme-256%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/#post-10406907)
 * Don’t “import styles to the child theme”. Enqueue the parent and put only your
   overrides in the child’s style.css. The child theme should contain only things
   that differ from the parent.
 *  Thread Starter [askrupska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askrupska/)
 * (@askrupska)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/#post-10406929)
 * That is what I have done sorry for not phrasing it correctly….
 * What I meant is I put in the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“”); of my parent theme and adding only my own styles into my child theme’s
   stylesheet
 * Like I said I have no idea how to do the enqueue part
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/#post-10406966)
 * Maybe an example will help. Here’s the child theme of 2017 I use on my site. 
   It adds a Google font or two and tweaks the hero image size,
 * [https://github.com/sterndata/sds_2017](https://github.com/sterndata/sds_2017)
 * Using the enqueue methods makes it easy for a plugin like “autoptimize” to minify
   and combine CSS into one file.
 *  Thread Starter [askrupska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askrupska/)
 * (@askrupska)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/#post-10407081)
 * Thanks for that, managed to get it working! 🙂
 * Although it still seems like there’s a loading issue.
 * For example if you go onto a new page and as it loads, scroll down and then back
   up again the nav bar seems to disappear for a few seconds and then comes back.
   
   It’s as if it loads it twice.
 * What could be the issue for this as it is quite off putting.

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## Tags

 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [parent theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent-theme/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [style](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style/)
 * [styling](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/styling/)

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 * Last reply from: [askrupska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askrupska/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-256/#post-10407081)
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