Title: Create child theme when parent uses style.css.php
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Create child theme when parent uses style.css.php

 *  Resolved [DB Designhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/db-designhouse/)
 * (@db-designhouse)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-when-parent-uses-stylecssphp/)
 * I’m trying to create a child theme from hi-response. I have create a style.css
   and a functions.php but it doesn’t seem to be working. I checked the parent style.
   css and it doesn’t have any code in it other than the intro text for a standard
   style file. Ive noticed that all the styling seems to be in css > style.css.php.
   I’m assuming I need to have this in a css folder in my child theme, but I have
   no idea what code I need to write in it.
 * Any help would be much appreciated
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Justin Greer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justingreerbbi/)
 * (@justingreerbbi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-when-parent-uses-stylecssphp/#post-5861064)
 * There is more than likely something custom with the theme. I did notice that 
   the Hi-Response theme is premium which is harder to get support for here on the.
   ORG forums.
 * They do have some documentation here [http://emilolsson.com/hi-response/documentation/](http://emilolsson.com/hi-response/documentation/)
 * We feel it’s important to direct people to those official locations. Doing this
   will provide the developer with the income they need to make WordPress awesome.
   
   Forum volunteers are also not given access to commercial products, so they would
   not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly. This is
   one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s vendors.
   The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product.
 *  Thread Starter [DB Designhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/db-designhouse/)
 * (@db-designhouse)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-when-parent-uses-stylecssphp/#post-5861065)
 * Thanks Justin,
 * Unfortunately, having hard time getting hold of the vendor but I’ll keep plugging
   away.
 * Cheers
 *  [Justin Greer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justingreerbbi/)
 * (@justingreerbbi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-when-parent-uses-stylecssphp/#post-5861066)
 * Event hough the theme is a commercial theme, the same child theme principles 
   apply. As long as the child theme header set up correctly [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme),
   you should simple just mimic the file structure of the parent theme, if you need
   to override something.
 * The authors documentation should contain and list of actions and filters is it
   uses them. This will allow you to hook deeper and modify the core without touching
   the parent theme.
 * Good luck
 *  Thread Starter [DB Designhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/db-designhouse/)
 * (@db-designhouse)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-when-parent-uses-stylecssphp/#post-5861154)
 * Thanks Justin.
 * With my limited knowledge of code, i have tried the link before and had no luck.
   Thanks for your help though. Much appreciated.

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## Tags

 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [parent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [scss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/scss/)

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