lyounk09

Thanks. I’ll post to that forum.

Got it. Thanks again. Greatly appreciated.

One more thing and then I think I will be good – how can I tell if the child theme is taking on the details of the parent? The reason I am asking is that when I activated the parent theme days ago there was another set of menu options on the right that is not there with the active child theme. Also how do I go about creating a functions.php file for the child theme directory? I read in this link that it should not be a copy of the parent php file so I’m not sure how to get a copy or make one.

I am reading the info about child themes as well. Thank you so much.

Ok – here’s where I am at this point. I made a copy of the functions.php file from my remote site and copied it to my local site. I opened it in a text editing and deleted the code that I added yesterday. I then uploaded that back to my remote site. I have not reactivated the premium theme on my site for fear that it will break again.

I have a child theme set up and a style.css folder in the child directory:

Here is what I have in the style.css sheet

/*
Theme Name: Virtue Child Theme
Theme URI: http://themes.kadencethemes.com/virtue/
Description: Child Theme for Virtue
Author: Kadence Themes
Author URI: http://kadencethemes.com/
Template: virtue_premium
Version: 1.0
*/
@import url(‘../virtue_premium/style.css’);

questas_admin – thanks for the continued help. Here’s where I am on this (first off I know very little about any of this and should probably not be doing any thing with the code) but I’ll try and outline what I have/done. I started out with the Virtue theme (free version). After reading that it was a good idea to have a child version of your theme I did go into the FileZilla and create a child theme. I also added a style.css folder into the child theme – I didn’t add anything else. After I did this I upgraded to the premium version of Virtue (I probably should have done all that from the beginning but I’m learning). I then went into the child theme style.css and pointed it to Virtue-premium as someone suggested. From that point on I’m lost.
I activated the Virtue Premium theme and made a few customizations after that. I’m not sure if I can in the child theme or not. What got me into trouble yesterday was I was trying to add a “continue shopping” button to my Woocommerce Cart. I found instructions online that said to add this snippet to the functions.php file within your theme folder:

addaction( ‘woocommercebeforecarttable’, ‘wooaddcontinueshoppingbuttontocart’ );
function wooaddcontinueshoppingbuttontocart() {
$shoppageurl = getpermalink( woocommercegetpageid( ‘shop’ ) );
echo ‘<div class=”woocommerce-message”>’;
echo ‘ Continue Shopping → Need some more products?’;
echo ‘</div>’;
}

I went to the editor on my dashboard found the functions.php file and added this code to the bottom. That’s when the error occurred – I’m not sure now what the error was but I went back and I thought I deleted this snippet. I must have deleted something else because that is when I got the fatal error.

I am back into my site and I have activated my child theme. None of my premium theme info is there and I can’t activate the theme without causing the fatal error again. I can now get back into FileZilla but I’m not sure at this point what to do. Also I’m not sure if I am using the child them that related to my premium theme or not – not even sure that the child theme is set up correctly for the premium them. Thanks for any help.

I’m not able to connect to the server in filezilla now

Not sure about the CPanel thing – I can’t activate the theme or it give me the fatal area and I don’t know how to get into it to fix -it. I added a code that I found online to add the “continue shopping” to my site – it didn’t like the code and when I deleted what I thought I had added that’s when the sytem went down.

I thought I activated the child-them; I don’t have a clue how to use FTP; my hosting company is GoDaddy and I’m checking with them now. Thanks for trying to help me.