You should write the name of the theme as in the folder /wp-content/themes For example, for hiding the default theme Twenty Fifteen you should write like this function kill_themes($themes) { unset($themes[‘twentyfifteen’]); return $themes; } add_filter(‘wp_prepare_themes_for_js’,’kill_themes’);
If you want to be super safe, you can do this method: I would recommend first connecting to the theme folder via FTP. If you haven’t made any templates or custom php pages etc, you can rename the theme folder _backup at the end. Then just drag in the new theme in the same theme … Read more
From the chat. Changing the template names to lowercase + lower case folders did it. So @CoderScissorhands haven’t had the style.css file in the parent theme, and this also was the reason not to work.
In your child theme (which I am assuming you are using) functions.php file: function wpse_356175_assets() { wp_dequeue_style( ‘media-queries’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpse_356175_assets’ ); Utilise wp_dequeue_style and or wp_deregister_style depending on how the stylesheet was registered/enqueued. If necessary adjust the priority of your action to fire after the registered/enqueued file from the parent theme, e.g: … Read more
Here is what worked: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘parent_override’ ); function parent_override() { unregister_sidebar(‘sidebar-4’); /** I have looked for the ID of the sidebar by looking at * the source code in the admin.. and saw the widget’s id=”sidebar-4″ */ register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => ‘Footer’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”span3″>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h6 class=”footer-widgets-item”>’, ‘after_title’ => … Read more
WordPress parent theme are the main file which contains all data and coding. If you directly edit everything in the parent theme such as CSS, functions and any other pages then it might be possible to lose many of previously made changes when you will update to new version of that theme. So, it is … Read more
At the top of your child themes style.css add: @import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”); Obviously replace twentyeleven with your parent themes folder. 2016 – This practice has now been replaced by declaring the ‘Template’ in your theme stylesheet header: Template: twentyfifteen https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Child themes should use load_child_theme_textdomain(). You can find it in /wp-includes/l10n.php. Use a new slug and a separate po file.
You can enable child themes for any theme: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes If you want your parent theme based off another parent theme, for example you want a theme based off of Twitter bootstrap and apply any changes they make to your framework, without over-riding your changes, use revision control. Git Mercurial etc.
The functions.php file executes at plugins_loaded, with the Child Theme functions.php executing before the Parent Theme functions.php. That means that, in order to load functional sub-files in the Child Theme after the Parent Theme functions.php executes, you simply need to hook your include() calls after plugins_loaded. A usually safe action for such purposes is after_setup_theme: … Read more