Title: Child Theme Issues
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Child Theme Issues

 *  [allanlud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allanlud/)
 * (@allanlud)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-11/)
 * Hi, first off really nice theme.
 * I am having trouble with overriding parent theme files.
 * Images on the Presentation page in front-columns-box I would like to add links
   around the images. I have edited the parent theme files /includes/widgets.php
   and got it working but would like to know how I can get it working in a child
   theme. I have copied and pasted the widgets.php file to the child theme in a 
   subfolder called includes but it isn’t working. I know there is a require_once
   in the parent theme functions.php but don’t know how to override that.
 * My other question, is, is there anyway to separate the homepage into 2 columns
   and have posts form 2 different categories display in each column. Again, I have
   tried this and got it working to some extent but I don’t want to mess around 
   with parent theme files too much.
 * Thanks,
    Al.

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 *  [thezedt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thezedt/)
 * (@thezedt)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-11/#post-5520821)
 * The original widgets functionality needs to be unhooked and then your own widgets
   hooked back in place. That’s not the simplest task to do.
 * We’ll get the images to be wrapped in links in a future update.
 * You should be able to customize the posts part to display anything you want by
   copying the content/content-frontpage.php file to the child theme (keeping the
   folder structure) and editing the query (and output) to fit your needs.

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