Hello!
Child theme is a separate theme, so you need to configure it from scratch, it doesn’t inherit parent theme settings. So what you should have done, is create child theme right away and skip configuring parent theme altogether. Corpo Toolkit is a plugin and there’s no such thing as child plugin.
This works for me.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/orbisius-child-theme-creator/
Make it easy, Install plugin, make plugin active, make a child theme, make plugin in-active.
An you redy to start your child theme.
Or try a other plugin.
I may be biased but stick with Orbisius Child Theme Creator 😉
I don’t beleve creating child theme is the issue here. Personally I use One Click Child Theme plugin 🙂
Thanks to everyone for your help! And alex27 is right–my problem is that I didn’t create a child theme right from the get-go. Now I’m trying to go back and figure out everything I changed and make a child theme with it. I think I actually have the child theme created correctly now (I hope), but now I’m struggling to make my home page look like it did previously when I had configured it with the corpo theme and not my corpo child theme. As examples, I don’t know how to make the slider display, or how to make the portfolio display, or even how to set the color scheme to “blue” on the entire site… Is there some special code to paste into the home page like with the special corpo buttons? Pardon my ignorance.
I’m not sure I understand your problem. Are you saying that when you created child theme, Theme Options section disappeared and you no longer can set color scheme etc.? Because every option and setting works exactly the same in child theme as in parent theme.
Confirmed. Orbisius Child Theme Creator was causing some JavaScript errors.
I pushed an update for Orbisius Child Theme Creator 2 hours ago.
Please update to the latest version.
Alex27, no, the Theme Options section doesn’t disappear–just nothing I set up in that section works. I was looking at some more recent posts in the support that you’ve been answering, and maybe my problem is that I have an old version of the corpo theme paired with the most recent toolkit?
I’m using: theme version 1.2
with toolkit version: 1.5
I was trying to get my child theme to work before I upgraded the theme…
Do you think I should backup my files and try upgrading the theme?
Thank you for your help!
With your help and a few of the other support posts, I think I have everything working with my child theme now! And I did it without upgrading the theme to 1.3.2 (which I plan to do tonight after I make a backup of everything–that’ll be the true child theme test)!
There were a few key problems that I had to fix:
1) I had my home page set up to display static page instead of latest posts. I made this change and re-applied my child theme to see if that’s all I had to do to get the home page to display correctly. It wasn’t. So, next, I took a closer look at the Theme Options settings.
2) Apparently, as soon as I apply my child theme, many of the Theme Options settings are reset to the default values–a fact I hadn’t noticed before. Most serious option that was reset? “Enable Custom Home Page” was set to “No.” As soon as I saved “Yes,” my home page problems were starting to get better. The slider and portfolio appeared!
3) I also had to redo other Theme Options settings like the home page callout section, the color scheme, portfolio intro text, and social media phone number.
Those were the main changes that I had to make, and the most exciting part is that I am now using my child theme and everything looks as it should!
Thanks for all your help.
Well, I wrote at the very beginning that child themes do not inherit theme options settings, so you need to set them again in child theme 🙂
