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Jan Dembowski
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When you created your child theme, the child theme’s style.css file should be small and have very few lines. Can you share that here? For example my Twenty Sixteen child theme looks like this.
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Sixteen Child theme
Description: Child theme of Twenty Sixteen
Version: 0.1
Template: twentysixteen
*/
The Template tag is what makes it a child theme. Do you have that tag and is the parent theme also installed on your site?
This may be the problem. When I created the child .css I copied the parent .css and changed the few lines in the header that related to the child. Should all the rest of the content (core structure, etc) be eliminated?
Here is what it looks like now after clearing everything below the header
/*
Theme Name: MEDIABOOK_child
Theme URI: http://www.themeforest_child.net/user/wickedpixel
Author: wickedpixel – wpworks.net
Author URI: http://themeforest.net/user/wickedpixel
Template: wpw_mediabook
Description: Mediabook Child Theme
Version: 1.3.2 | 18 Nov 2013
License: by themeforest.net
License URI: by themeforest.net
Tags: minimalism, focus
*/
With this .css file saved I now get a child theme in the manage themes ,but it is blank (with grey checkerboard) and does nothing.
Nevermind -I’ll hire a pro when I get the chance. Thx.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Side note and not related to this topic: @heart2hack Your reply was deleted, please do not direct people to your own site. That can easily be seen as spamming and that’s really frowned upon here.
If you want to help then please do. But keep it in these forums please.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
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Nevermind -I’ll hire a pro when I get the chance. Thx.
@cfreeborn That’s fine too, but I suggest you ask the theme author how to customize that theme. You’re that author’s customer and I’m sure you’ll get a good reply from them.
I’m in a bit over my head here. Not even sure if the child theme will accomplish what I’m after:
I have built a site with a nice but no longer supported theme.
When I try to change to other themes it seem I have to re-build all the galleries and content from scratch.
I was under the assumption that a child theme would allow easier migration to different themes, but now that the child is cleaned up and running I don’t understand how to apply parent settings to other themes.
Thanks for your help.
i think you want to use different theme but want galleries of the old theme.
but as far as i know through wordpress child theme you can only one theme at the time not two.
don’t know exactly that child theme will work on two parent themes.
but you should probably create galleries from scratch using some sort of plugin.the plugin which i will suggest you is free.
try to use nextgen gallery plugin.
Yes that is what I’m trying to do.
I have a site built with a theme that I like, but it is no longer supported and is not very mobile friendly. Otherwise I like the way it looks. You can see it by adding harles between the letters C & F of my user name and add dot com. That is my website.
I would like to be able to use other themes.
I would like to be able to keep my existing galleries with their photo captions, order, etc.
I would like to be able to switch themes without having to re-build those galleries for each new theme.
I was told that creating a child theme would accomplish this.
Is this true?
If so, how do I apply the child/parent settings to the new themes?
If it is not true, is there a better way to go about this?
Thanks again,
-C
don’t know what you website address is “harles!”
but you want gallery of the old theme and update you theme to new one.but that is not possible using two parent themes.
you can accomplish this by hiring a pro person.to copy the gallery code from you existing code and create a plugin using that code.
than you will be able to use the plugin (old galleries) and you can apply new template to your website..
child theme work’s this way.
when you have a parent theme and you want to change the style or add more functionality to the parent theme than you can use child theme. but you can use single parent theme to use child theme and adopt the properties and functionality of the parent theme.
this work can’t be done using child theme.
