Title: Child Theme Setup Problems Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Child Theme Setup Problems * Resolved [goldmember](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldmember/) * (@goldmember) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/) * on [this site](http://dev.uniquerefinishing.net/), I have a theme called Cearti installed. I tried to create a child theme setup and it doesnt seem to be overriding the parent theme. * If I firebug the homepage, and click on the CSS tab, it shows the following: * ``` @import "http://dev.uniquerefinishing.net/wp-content/themes/Cearti/css/style.css"; @import "http://dev.uniquerefinishing.net/wp-content/themes/Cearti/css/nivo-slider.css"; @import "http://dev.uniquerefinishing.net/wp-content/themes/Cearti/css/orange.css"; @import "http://dev.uniquerefinishing.net/wp-content/themes/Cearti/prettyPhoto/css/prettyPhoto.css"; ``` * So I want to override the /Cearti/css/style.css and the /Cearti/css/orange.css files. * So I created, and activated, a Ceartichild theme and in there I have these files: / themes/Ceartichild/style.css ([here’s the code](http://pastebin.com/KmfbpS6b))/ themes/Ceartichild/css/orange.css ([here’s the code](http://pastebin.com/TtFf8HaF)) * Please advise why the child theme style files are not overriding the parent theme. Thanks in advance. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449220) * There are numerous questions such as this (which is the one I came here to post) in this forum without answers. Does no one know why our child themes don’t show up, despite following the child theme directions to the T? * Personally, I’m using Adventure Journal. I created a child theme and changed to that theme, but the header of my pages still shows they are linked to “…adventure- journal/style.css” and NOT “…adventure-journal-child/style.css”. * Are there some themes that have a way of thwarting customization?!? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449221) * Not intentionally, no. Have you tried creating a child of the Twenty Eleven theme? * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449222) * Haven’t really been interested in 2011, but I have successfully added a child to Modularity Lite. So I’m aware it works in some instances… * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449223) * The point of the exercise here is to see if you can successfully activate a child theme on that server/install. * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449224) * Yes, 2011 child works. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449225) * Do you have the latest version of Adventure Journal? * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449235) * Sorry: missed the notice of this post. * Yes, 1.7.2 is what it says. * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449237) * And thus, another thread on the same topic goes unresolved. * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449238) * We’re good, but definetly not mind readers or psychic. Can you provide a link via pastebin.com for your child theme’s style.css file? * That may help us identify or at least reproduce what you are seeing. * **Edit:** Or even better, the link to your actual site with the child theme if you can. * [anoleimaging](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoleimaging/) * (@anoleimaging) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449239) * Not to be a wise…acre about it, but that’s what questions are for. I just thought it had come up enough that *somebody* must have a solution. * Thanks for your assistance. I’ll start with the pastebin thing, I guess, and you can tell me if it’s enough. * I tried to follow the child theme directions & I have other sites (with other themes) that work. * [This](http://pastebin.com/gHp40TiC) is the child css at /public_html/temp_wp/ wp-content/themes/adventure-journal-child * Thanks again! * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-setup-problems/#post-2449240) * Okay, the [Adventure Journal](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/adventure-journal) theme is a little different, but that’s not insurmountable. * The parent `style.css` is being loaded via `wp_enqueue_style()` and added to the `wp_print_styles` action. That overrides the normal loading of the `style. css` file for the child theme. * To use the normal `style.css` you have to remove from the queue the parent `style. css` and add the child theme’s instead. * In your `adventure-journal-child` directory, put in this `style.css` file. * [http://pastebin.com/HJ6eWbgt](http://pastebin.com/HJ6eWbgt) * That is the same `style.css` file you’ve provided except I un-commented out the` @import` line. * Now create a `adventure-journal-child/functions.php` and put in these lines. * ```