Christopher Nawoichik

Thanks for the info. Still no progress.

I tried editing the Posts page after assigning it to Latest Posts under Settings – Reading. It still does not appear properly (had to unassign it), and I am searching for how to edit the template of the given page.

I am beyond confused with these later versions of “site editing” over the past year. The only thing I can do is keep troubleshooting by trying new things. I will try creating new test pages with a template for blogging.

I shall figure it out.

Another question on the child theme:

Is it wise to make identical copies of all the files or templates from the parent—and insert them into the child theme so that I have access to any custom changes I want to make in the child? Will this cause any speed problems?

This is for organizational purposes, assuming I can actually get the child’s style.css to override the parent.

For example:

@media screen and (min-width: 48em)
.wrap {
max-width: 1200px;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
}

It opens the red-lined “error” box saying an error exists, and asks whether I want to proceed even though it may break the site. It will not go away until I delete the entire top line (@media rule).

I’ve been working with the custom CSS panel, but still cannot make changes from style.css. Style.css has nothing in it but the enqueuing code.

I’m wondering: (1) Did I enque the child theme over properly? I used the updated code from the WordPress repository on properly enqueuing scripts, which says not to use the @import “hook”—which slows it down:

function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {

    $parent_style = 'twentyseventeen-style'; // This is 'twentyseventeen-style' for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

    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 ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );

*Also, (2) what about responsive CSS? Every time I try @media queries before the code—in both custom CSS panel and Style.css—it gives me error messages. Thus I am entering the rules in properly.