Few things have already been discussed here I would like to add more In order to make your theme a good parent you also need to consider in following things: make your functions and classes pluggable ie, wrap your theme functions with function_exists wrapper so that they can be overridden in child pages. if ( … Read more
The comparison of CSS and functions.php files is pretty flawed. PHP doesn’t “cascade”. To answer your question, both files are loaded, child theme functions.php first then the parent’s. What happens if you want to have the function in the child theme override a function in the parent theme and the parent theme is not using … Read more
Where do URI files come from?
You need to include the wordpress config file: require $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/wp-config.php’; OR use a page template if your form handler is in your theme. Take a look at using page template’s in wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
Every WordPress theme, including child themes, is required to have a style.css file. The first few lines in style.css tell WordPress the name of the theme, the description, and some other meta information about the theme. You’ll have to ask the theme developer why there are files missing in your theme.
permissions on themes directory
This is just simple. First create a page and use slug for it as custom. And then rename you php file to page-custom.php and that would be it.
You could just use a RewriteRule to your .htaccess above the regular permalink rewrite rules: RewriteRule ^ajax$ /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php [L] Now send your AJAX requests to example.com/ajax, and never miss core changes to that file after upgrades.
This is typically a file ownership problem — in a normal install, WordPress runs as the webserver user (www-data in the default Ubuntu install of apache). When you create files or copy them into your web directory, they’re owned by your normal user account. sudo chown -R www-data your-theme-directory should take care of it.
Yes, you can do this with Child Themes. A child theme is a WordPress theme that is based on another theme. The child theme points to the parent theme, and inherits styles, functions, and templates from the parent theme. However, in the child theme you can override any style rules and templates that you want … Read more