jaykaybee

Hi Jeroen, I am experimenting with prefixing each entry with the date in ISO format, e.g. 2019-03-15. So far, I’m liking the results. I will post another thread with some feature requests/suggestions.

PS never mind, I’m going to stick with Responsive, I was not happy with godaddy support, whereas responsive has good explanations of how to make a child theme for it: https://cyberchimps.com/guide/child-theme-example/

OK things are working better for me now. @mhjp I’ll describe what I did in case it helps you.

1. I made a new directory for my twenty seventeen child theme per instructions in https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/theme-school/child-themes/child-themes-twentyseventeen/

2. Then I added style.css and functions.php with the code snippets from https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

At this point, my site loaded with only the header section. No “front page” sections, also no header image.

These were really the only things I had “customized.”

It turned out that my site was still connected to the underlying database, just things were not showing up.

So I went into the “Header Media” area of customizations and clicked “add new” header media, and selected the image that I had earlier uploaded as part of my parent theme customization. It was there, just needed to be re-selected.

Then I went into the “Theme Options” area of customizations and clicked the drop-downs for Front Page Section 1 content, Section 2, 3, 4. The pages I had created earlier as part of my parent theme customization were all there, just needed to be re-selected.

Then I went into the “Additional CSS” area of customizations, and pasted in the CSS code I had added to my parent theme in this area. This was blank and did not carry over, but I had previously copy/pasted this code into a txt file, and was able now to paste it back.

So I’m thinking that if you look through your customizations in the parent theme before you create a child theme, copy/paste things like “Additional CSS” but you can probably count on the other customizations being available to you. They may just need to be “reconnected” as was the case for my header image and front page sections.

Everything else carried over for me, outside of customizations, I am still using the same “Custom CSS & JS” code, the same plugins, etc.

Thanks, to check my understanding: whatever changes I made to the parent theme (including plugins?), I need to copy those files into the Child theme (or reinstall there). And, moving forward, whenever I create new posts and pages, they will be stored with the Child theme, in that content folder, correct?

So, a few follow-up questions:

1. Where can I get an orientation to the folder/file structure, in order to understand (moving forward) where my changes reside?

2. And if I understand, the modifications I made to the parent “front sections” and panels are embedded in the parent theme contents, and not easy to copy as files into the child theme – I should plan on re-creating them?

Thank you for the help.