Having the same problem, I found the solution here: https://pagecrafter.com/how-to-remove-filters-using-child-theme/ The thing is this: 1) do not touch the function in parent theme, 2) remove that filter in the child function.php in this way: //Remove the filter that removes the admin bar function remove_parent_filters(){ //Have to do it after theme setup, because child theme functions … Read more
Although it is a bit old post, there are some possible solutions: For your specific problem, since the only difference I see from the original widget is that you do not need the “tab3” regarding the recent comments and since each div has its own id, you can easily put in your css something like: … Read more
Recommended Method You don’t have to change anything in the database. Follow these steps: Activate a default WordPress theme (e.g. twentyseventeen) – that is any theme other than the child theme you are going to rename. Rename your child Themes folder name and child theme’s name in style.css file. Now activate the child theme. That’s … Read more
As you have figured out, ‘child themes’ are very beneficial. Not updating – not a good thing. If you have any programming skills, then you could create a child theme. (Lots of tutorials on how to do that.) Then take any page that you modified in the main theme and place them in the same … Read more
It is very best described in the WordPress Child theme codex page. Basically to load child theme and parent theme stylesheet files, you have to just add following code in the functions.php file of your child theme. function my_theme_enqueue_styles() { $parent_style=”parent-style”; wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’ ); wp_enqueue_style( ‘styles’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array( $parent_style, ‘enough_base’ … Read more
I always find it best to start simple, make something that works, then build another tiny piece. That way it’s easier to determine at what point something is going wrong. I would suggest removing everything except the parent “flatsome” theme from your server. (Keep your backups locally, just don’t have them installed in WP.) Next, … Read more
I realize that I did not know that you needed an extra step for the functions.php. Here is the last step I needed. <?php function my_theme_enqueue_styles() { $parent_style=”parent-style”; // This is ‘twentyfifteen-style’ for the Twenty Fifteen theme. wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’ ); wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array( $parent_style ), wp_get_theme()->get(‘Version’) ); } add_action( … Read more
It is never a good idea to modify the theme directly, because, when the theme is updated all the modifications you made will be lost. The best course is to create a child theme, and add custom templates into the child theme, and use the child theme instead of the main one. If you need … Read more
If I open syyle.css from original theme I see */ /* Themely is based off of Understrap which uses the Underscores starter theme merged with the Bootstrap Framework. The default styles can be found in /css/theme.css and /css.theme.min.css. The styles loaded when I enqueued theme.css ad theme.min.css files. My functions.php file now <?php add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, … Read more
Child themes only handle template files. The file widget.php is loaded by the functions.php of the parent then you need to do the same with you new file is the child theme. And if you want to deregister the sidebars loaded by the parent, you can try that : add_action(“widgets_init”, function () { remove_action(“widgets_init”, “himalayas_widgets_init”); … Read more