I downloaded the free Rookie parent theme and have no problem displaying translations of “Search Results for: %s” on a successful search results screen. This works in the WordPress languages folder at wp-content/languages/themes/rookie-de_DE.mo as well as Loco Translate’s custom directory. It works there if the files are named correctly because the parent theme correctly loads … Read more
There is already an answer about this question with explicable examples How do I get a parent theme modification from a child theme?. You can also check about get_theme_mod here https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_theme_mod/
The new function in your child theme’s functions.php cannot override a function from the parent’s functions.php file unless that function is written to be pluggable, i.e. declared with if (!function_exists(‘alterna_get_social_list’)) Per the documentation on Child Themes and how they inherit from child functions.php files: Using functions.php Unlike style.css, the functions.php of a child theme does … Read more
locate_template will attempt to find the specified file in the child theme, and fall back to the parent theme if it does not exist: locate_template(‘inc/custom.php’, true); Setting the second parameter to true causes it to require the file instead of just determining the path. As the name suggests, locate_template is meant for loading template files. … Read more
You can copy your canvas-child folder and call it canvas-child-2, or similar. Then open up style.css in canvas-child-2, and edit the Theme Name:. Do this for as many different child themes you need. You will then need to enable the child themes for the sites you wish to use them on. Visit the Sites menu … Read more
Try these filters instead // changing the logo link from wordpress.org to your site function mb_login_url() { return home_url(); } add_filter( ‘login_headerurl’, ‘mb_login_url’ ); // changing the alt text on the logo to show your site name function mb_login_title() { return get_option( ‘blogname’ ); } add_filter( ‘login_headertitle’, ‘mb_login_title’ ); Though if you’re on a Network/MultiSite … Read more
Child Themes are useful for users who mainly want to make style changes to their Theme, but don’t want – or know how – to maintain the underlying code. Grokking PHP/WordPress Theme Development is an entirely different thing than grokking CSS. Child Themes are also useful for users who want to implement minor functional changes … Read more
There is a filter called wp_prepare_themes_for_js in wp-admin/includes/theme.php in the wp_prepare_themes_for_js() function, which is called by wp-admin/themes.php to populate the theme set. That filter will allow you to remove themes from the list. Of course, you have to know the theme name. function kill_theme_wpse_188906($themes) { unset($themes[‘twentyten’]); return $themes; } add_filter(‘wp_prepare_themes_for_js’,’kill_theme_wpse_188906′);
Is it enough to just create a child-theme – let’s say technically without adding anything else but the bare minimum style.css – to have the translation of the parent-theme being used automatically for the child-theme as well? Basically, the answer is NO, … but… there’s an option: Add a mu-plugin. This (MU-)Plugin does several things: … Read more
There’s no need for more code in your functions.php file to enqueue the parent themes css from your child theme. The problem is that by adding that code, you’re enqueueing the parent theme’s CSS a second time, but it’s now loading after the child theme. This means that all the changes you made in the … Read more