The functions in your child theme will be loaded before the functions in the parent theme. This means that if your parent and child themes both have functions called my_function() which do a similar job, the one in the parent theme will load last, meaning it will override the one in the child theme. ~Guide … Read more
A little late to the party, came across this question looking for the same answer myself – to answer your first question, I’ve done a brief test locally and it seems that the parent theme can be network disabled. I have three sites running, with three child themes network enabled where the parent theme is … Read more
As stated in the Theme handbook (https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/) you need to use the parent theme dir name in the ‘Template’ header. In your case the template name would be. Template: fitness-hub
Is there a better way to customize a parent template file than to copy it into the child theme and make changes? Not really. Some themes, like Genesis, are specifically designed for child theming, and instead of templates use action hooks to construct their pages. If the parent theme is built like this you can … Read more
If the file is included via get_template_part or a part of the template hierarchy, then yes, create a file with the same name in a child theme and WordPress will preferentially load that file. If the file is included via include/require, then no, those are PHP language features, not WordPress functions, there is no way … Read more
Your site is not using a Child Theme. It is currently using the WordFruit Theme, and this Theme does not declare any Theme as a Template. If it were, you would see a Template: parent-theme header tag (where “parent-theme” would be, e.g. twentyeleven if it were using Twenty Eleven as its parent Theme) in style.css … Read more
On your wordpress menu use another class instead of “blog” for the blog item, cause your theme has a function that add a similar class to the body so it’s creating a conflict in there, try erasing your blog class for you to notice. Also the app.css if for ur custom css :), no need … Read more
switch_to_blog(1); to switch to the root (primary) blog and pull post info. restore_current_blog(); to switch back.
While I agree with Justin Tadlock on a lot of things, I strongly disagree with him on this. The reason parent/child themes exist is that there’s a lot of common functionality used across websites. Instead of re-inventing the wheel every time, it’s better to build from a solid base that has been tested by hundreds … Read more
You can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); while enqueuing the scripts and styles. It returns the directory path in which your child stylesheet is stored.