Title: Editing Theme Options
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Editing Theme Options

 *  [yourschools](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourschools/)
 * (@yourschools)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-theme-options-1/)
 * I am trying to customize the about-us boxes slightly through a child theme. I
   have created the same folder structure and copied over theme-options in my child
   theme.
 * All I am trying to do is add a url input box in the about us section so the about
   us boxes can link to a page it is highlighing.
 * For example an Athletics title with the fa-futbol-o (soccer ball icon) would 
   be linked o the athletics page and since the description strips out any html 
   I can’t add a link that way.
 * However any changes I have made do not override those of the parent theme. I 
   can surround the div in a link from the front-page.php but without adding a url
   input via the theme-options all links would be to the same url.
 * I was able to accomplish exactly what I wanted but I had to edit the parent theme_options.
   php which defeats the purpose of the child theme.
 * Thanks for any help/suggestions I appreciate it.

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