The answer is to remove things in your child theme via an action that runs before the action the parent theme has hooked to, everything should be happening within an action of some sort. For example, in your parent theme: function do_something(){ // something happens here } add_action( ‘init’, ‘do_something’ ); Then in your child … Read more
Plugins are not kept in the theme directory. It doesn’t matter if you are using a child theme or not. Maybe you’re asking a different question? Are you asking how to make a “child-plugin”? Plugins are generally kept here: wp-content/plugins. Whereas child themes and themes are kept here: wp-content/themes As far as “child-plugins” there is … Read more
What I see here is you are not using dependency parameter in your child theme to load the css. wp_enqueue_style() accepts 5 arguments. The 3rd one is dependency. This dependency allows your css file to load after that. So if you will add the parent stylesheet handle in child dependency then this will load after … Read more
Take the whole footer.php from the parent theme and copy it to your child theme. Your child theme will override the parent footer now. Any changes you make to that footer file in the child theme (ie removing branding) will affect the site. This is usually better than starting with a whole new footer.php especially … Read more
Core WordPress templates (listed here) can be overwritten by placing them in the child theme (because WordPress itself loads them it knows to do it in a child theme friendly way). Any other template files your theme might be using can only be overwritten if they’re included using the correct template functions, like get_template_part(), which … Read more
Obvious solution: don’t switch on the live site. You could use a staging environment instead, but this can become tricky with ecommerce sites if orders have been placed in the meantime. Alternatively shut down your site for a couple of minutes. If this is not feasable, there may be other ways. To understand, how theme … Read more
Thanks for help i found the solution <?php /** * Page Template * * … * * @package Thematic * @subpackage Templates */ // calling the header.php get_header(); // action hook for placing content above #container thematic_abovecontainer(); ?> <div id=”container”> <?php // action hook for placing content above #content thematic_abovecontent(); // filter for manipulating the … Read more
If you need any changes done to a theme that you did not author, a child theme is a must (if the changes involves direct changes to the functionality and look of the theme itself), otherwise, if you need changes to the site, you would rather use a plugin instead of child theme. In such … Read more
That is 100% the approach you should take. You can even set up the child theme with a folder your-child-theme-name/ and then a style.css which uses the parent as the template: template: your-parent-theme-folder Then, you can either import the styles into this style.css (@import url(‘../parent-theme-folder/style.css’)) or start from scratch as needed. You’ll also be able … Read more
From your css snippet it looks like you child theme’s styles are located in the /stylesheets/mystyle.css file. Make sure that the file is actually being imported. I’d suggest either placing your css within the style.css file rather than a second import. But if you require the second file then modify your @import to @import url(‘/stylesheets/mystyle.css’);.