After activating a Child Theme you must set it settings just like for any other theme, but only once.
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lreids
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Hello, thanks for the quick response. The site is
Thanks in advance.
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lreids
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reviewedapp.com
Trying to reply on my phone, it’s a bit tricky.
This line is not really correct – though it looks like it’s working that way:
@import url("http://diivinecom.ipage.com/reviewedapp/wp-content/themes/ideas/style.css");
It should be:
@import url("../ideas/style.css");
But as leejosepho said, theme options and settings don’t carry over from the parent to the child theme – you have to redo them just like in any other new theme.
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lreids
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Hello,
Thanks for your help on this. I think I understand the gist of a child theme a little better now, so basically if i want to edit any php such as the header.php, I’d upload it to the child theme and have a play, if all goes wrong I can delete it and it will revert back to the parent theme?
One thing i’m struggling with is the top navigation menu. the original looks like this http://demos.appthemes.com/?theme=ideas and mine is just too basic, i’m not sure why the parent theme isn’t pushing the menu setting forward.
Sorry to be a pain, but any help would be greatly appreciated…again.
Thanks
Luke
…if i want to edit any php such as the header.php, I’d upload it to the child theme and have a play, if all goes wrong I can delete it and it will revert back to the parent theme?
Exactly, and if that does not clear things, you can temporarily rename the folder for your Child Theme via FTP and your site should drop back to running the default WordPress theme.
One thing i’m struggling with is the top navigation menu…
Back to you, WPyogi or whoever else knows that stuff!
You have to redo any theme options/settings in the child theme – the parent theme settings don’t affect the child theme.
It looks like the demo may be different from the actual theme – but please ask the developers of the theme for more help with this – as these forums only provide theme-specific help for themes from here:
http://wordpress.org/themes/
