How to enqueue child theme style sheets

  • DanielleH

    (@danielleh)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I am running WP 4.2.2 with the mantra theme. I want to create a child theme to style my contact form and a couple of other elements. I created the child theme directory and the functions.php and style.css files and added the header info as directed in http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes, but my problem comes in when enqueueing the style sheets from the original theme. Quite frankly I have no PHP experience whatsoever, my theme has far more style sheets than the example in the Codex and I just don’t get how to do this and not break my site. I can’t link right now because I’m building the site using XAMPP using localhost, but I have posted screen shots in my dropbox for anyone inclined to look at.

    Any help anyone is willing to provide would be really appreciated.

    Dropbox Screen Shots

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  • mrtom414

    (@mrtom414)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    you can just cut and paste the code from the codex just surround it with the <?php ?> tags.
    just be sure to surround the code with the <?php ?> tags. 

    <?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array('parent-style')
    );
}
?>
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