Animate.CSS with a child theme

The example in the page you linked uses get_template_directory_uri(), which will only give you the parent theme URI. If you want to target something in a child theme, you have to swap that for get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), which will give you the child theme URI, in the event a child theme is being used.

TwentyTwelve child theme: Incorrect footer menu

I expect that the theme_location is “footer” not “Footer”. It is case sensitive. I just checked. If you use a bad theme_location wp_nav_menu will fallback to what looks like a page menu when I test it. Edit: Due to additional information in the question, the theme_location is footer-menu and not footer. If you look at … Read more

Which files can be replaced in a child theme?

For ie.css specifically, the issue is that it is included via get_template_directory_uri(), which will output the parent theme directory when a child theme is being used. The solution is to add an action hooked to wp_enqueue_scripts with a lower priority, dequeue the stylesheet, then re-enqueue it using get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), which will load it from the child … Read more