From my answer to I modified the parent theme without creating a child theme (similar question) As stated in a comment, any changes you made to the parent theme will get overwritten with the theme update. But, you could copy all of the parent theme code to a new theme folder, adjust the theme header … Read more
Parent Theme update was not showing on the update page
I know it may seem like a lot of work but I build all my themes from my own theme framework and in the framework I have a bunch of “placeholder” variables and texts that I just replace with my text editor’s “Find & Replace” function. Additionally, EVEN if both themes have the same variable … Read more
Parent/Child themes – both CSS files loaded
You miss index.php as it is required – https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/what-is-a-theme/#required-files In style.css you have setup your theme as a child, that is second option for this message. Parent theme is two file style.css and index.php. This parent theme style need to be without line about template – remove 7 line from this example if you have … Read more
This is New Idea, but till now there is no way we can install parent theme inside child theme, but according to your requirement we can hide the theme from the list of available themes. this approach is not global but your project-specific you can identify your theme name which you want to hide. and … Read more
You must enqueue your child theme’s stylesheet from the child theme’s functions.php file, as you would any other stylesheet. Specifying the parent theme’s stylesheet handle as a dependency is a good measure to ensure the proper load order. function wpse406477_enqueue_child_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘mychild-style’, get_stylesheet_uri(), [ ‘parent-style’ ] ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpse406477_enqueue_child_styles’ ); Note that … Read more
Set Default Post as Parent Child (Nested) Relation
if it the functions file, the child theme is loaded in conjunction with it’s parent, the child being loaded first. If its the index.php file, you need to make sure your WordPress version greater than or equal to 3.0. Otherwise, your index.php file won’t overwrite. A lot of reworking of themes has happened, so make … Read more
You can use <?php get_template_directory_uri(); ?> to reference your parent theme folders. From the WordPress codex: In the event a child theme is being used, the parent theme directory URI will be returned…