Title: Child Theme funcions.php breaks site
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Child Theme funcions.php breaks site

 *  Resolved [SkylerGainsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skylergainsb/)
 * (@skylergainsb)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/)
 * This is my first time creating a child theme. I’m making it for dene-tha.com.
   
   I created style.css and put it in the appropriate folder for my theme (fashionistas-
   child). This works, however, the site then has no styling. So when I go on to
   create the code for the functions.php file, the site will not resolve. This is
   the code I used from the codex:
 *     ```
       (<?php)
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
       function theme_enqueue_styles() {
           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')
           );
       }
       ```
   
 * My theme has more than one style sheet, so I’m guessing this is the problem. 
   However, I don’t know how to account for the other .css files.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028382)
 * Remove the parentheses around the opening php tag. It should be
 * <?php
 *  Thread Starter [SkylerGainsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skylergainsb/)
 * (@skylergainsb)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028439)
 * Thanks WPyogi. That seems to have worked. One more related question and one issue
   however:
 * 1) What is the relationship between the child theme style sheets I just created
   and the changes I make in CSS Stylesheet Editor via Jetpack? Where should I be
   coding ideally?
 * 2) It now seems that the site title font has an added stroke width, but only 
   on the home page. Is this because of my other style sheets in the theme not being
   referenced? I read something in the codex that this would only work for themese
   with one .css file. Mine has four.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028442)
 * >  What is the relationship between the child theme style sheets I just created
   > and the changes I make in CSS Stylesheet Editor via Jetpack?
 * None, one is related to a plugin and the other a theme. They do not relate to
   each other.
 * >  Where should I be coding ideally?
 * In one place.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028443)
 * > 2) It now seems that the site title font has an added stroke width, but only
   > on the home page. Is this because of my other style sheets in the theme not
   > being referenced?
 * If you look at the HTML behind your page (i.e. with Firebug), you can see that
   your Home page uses different HTML for your site title. It uses a level 1 heading(
   which has the bold style).
 *  Thread Starter [SkylerGainsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skylergainsb/)
 * (@skylergainsb)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028451)
 * Thank you Andrew. I’m new to this stuff. This issue came up after I created the
   child theme, so I’m not sure what went wrong. I see now that the code on that
   page points to a level 1 heading, but how/where do I change this? Do I add the
   appropriate code into my child theme’s style.css file? What would that code be
   to make it point to that page?

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## Tags

 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [childtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/childtheme/)
 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [style.css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style-css/)

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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [SkylerGainsb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skylergainsb/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-funcionsphp-breaks-site/#post-6028451)
 * Status: resolved

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