Title: Child theme issues
Last modified: April 12, 2019

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# Child theme issues

 *  Resolved [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/)
 * My child theme stylesheet is not being ‘obeyed.’ If you will run the inspector
   on the page [http://thebordermission.org](http://thebordermission.org) you will
   see that it is loading themes Hemingway and Hemingway-kid. But if you click on
   the stylesheet for Hemingway-kid you will see that it is calling for the Template
   twentynineteen. (I changed it to twnetynineteen just to see if the thing was 
   working.)
 * Any help is appreciated.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11419585)
 * Is this the guide you followed to create the child theme?
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)
 * If not, please review it and see if you missed anything.
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11421994)
 * [@t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) yes, that is what I followed.
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422385)
 * This is what I have in my child theme style.css
 *     ```
       /*
        Theme Name:   Hemingway-kid
        Template:     twentynineteen
        Version:      1.0.0
        License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
        License URI:  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
   
       */
       ```
   
 * And this is what I have in my child theme functions.php
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
       function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
   
           $parent_style = 'parent-style'; 
   
           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 ),
               wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
           );
       }
       ```
   
 * If you run the Chrome inspector on the site, you see that the style.css shows
   exactly what I pasted above. It declares the Template to be twentynineteen (once
   again for troubleshooting purposes, this is a child of Hemingway). But also in
   the inspector you see that Hemingway is loaded, not Twenty-Nineteen.
 * This is what I can’t figure out.
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422518)
 * I have turned off server caching, and I have disabled caching for Chrome. The
   only thing that seems to make changes is if I switch themes and then switch themes
   back. Does WordPress have some sort of caching system now?
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422528)
 * Are you using `Hemingway` or `twentynineteen` to create a child theme?
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422557)
 * I am making a child theme from Hemingway. What I was pointing out above is that
   my style.css is not being ‘obeyed.’ In other words, although I changed the style.
   css to say that the template was twentynineteen, and although Chrome was showing
   in the developer tools that it was receiving the correct style.css, Chrome was
   also showing in the developer tools that it was continuing to use Hemingway as
   the template.
 * Additionally, if I go an change my active theme to something else and then change
   it back to my child theme, then the change seems to take effect.
 * The only way this makes sense is if wordpress stores the template information
   in the database somewhere rather than reading it from my child theme style.css
   every time.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/).
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422655)
 * > I am making a child theme from Hemingway.
 * Then why are you using `Template: twentynineteen` !!!!!
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11422702)
 * [@t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * I’m sorry if I’m being unclear. I’ll try again. I changed the template of my 
   child theme temporarily to see if it would take effect. It did not. That is the
   problem I am trying to troubleshoot here.
 * So for instance, when I have the template in the child theme as Hemingway, Chrome
   shows me in the developer tools that the style.css that it is using does in fact
   say Template: hemingway. Additionally, the website looks as if it is using Hemingway
   as its template and the developer tools also verify that the two themes being
   used are Hemingway and Hemingway-kid.
 * If, however, I change the template in my child theme to say Template: twentynineteen.
   This happens – The Chrome developer tools show me that the stylesheet it is using
   does in fact say, Template: twentynineteen. BUT the website is still being based
   of of Hemingway and the Chrome developer tools verify that the two themes being
   used are still Hemingway and Hemingway-kid.
 *  Thread Starter [mtjarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtjarrett/)
 * (@mtjarrett)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-issues-20/#post-11431321)
 * For anyone else who is having this issue, the answer is that you must change 
   your theme and then change back. Then you will see the changes take effect.

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