Title: [Child Theme, Parent: Sight] First Time at Child Themes and PHP
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Child Theme, Parent: Sight] First Time at Child Themes and PHP

 *  [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/)
 * (@hookturn)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-at-php-child-theme/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I’m new to the world of wordpress, I’ve written CSS stylesheets for livejournals
   and tumblrs before, but this is my first time making a self-hosted site on wordpress.
 * I posted on here about a week back and was recommended to make a child theme 
   rather than directly edit the theme I’ve used as a basis for my own edits (WPSHOWER’s
   Sight). I have done this, but there are some changes I think I’m only going to
   be able to do by uploading copies of the relevant php files to the child theme’s
   folders and making edits. Of course I could be wrong, any and all tips and feedback
   are appreciated!
 * **The Issues**
    - Site link: [http://www.hookturnmelbourne.com](http://www.hookturnmelbourne.com)
      
      Child Theme CSS: [http://pastebin.com/4h4wSiLv](http://pastebin.com/4h4wSiLv)
      Theme CSS: [http://pastebin.com/DU7HpwU6](http://pastebin.com/DU7HpwU6) Parent
      theme functions.php: [http://pastebin.com/BMSs0uJc](http://pastebin.com/BMSs0uJc)
 * 1: Since making the child theme, something has gone wrong with the menu navigation:
   when the “Culture” drop-down menu displays, it displaces the slideshow. I can’t
   work out what it is in the code that is causing this, as when I edited the original
   css sheet this didn’t occur, and I didn’t add any extra code to this section 
   when transferring it to the child theme.
 * 2: The slideshow, content and sidebar are all contained in a div named `.container`.
   I want to make it so that the sidebar is in its own div so that it can be displayed
   alongside both the slideshow and the content, and span from the navigation menu
   to the footer.
 * 3: I’d like to permanently disable comments, and thus remove that functionality
   from the theme.
 * 4: There are social links in the header of each individual post. I’d like to 
   move them to underneath the main content of the post.
 * I hope that this is all clear and makes sense, thank you in advance to anyone
   who reads this and can help me learn how to make my site work!

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