You can only override functions in a Parent Theme if the Parent Theme makes functions pluggable (by wrapping them in an if ( ! function_exists( ‘function_name’ ) ) conditional), or if the output of a function is passed through a filter (e.g. return apply_filters( $filter_name, $function_output ); Pluggable functions: in the Child Theme’s functions.php file, … Read more
“Template” should reference the parent theme: Template: Pinboard
Mostly the parent theme might be enqueing the child theme’s style.css, if so you can dequeue it by using handle and then enqueue with proper dependency. If the child theme’s handle is child-theme-style, then dequeue it using wp_dequeue_style(‘child-theme-style’) then enqueue it as needed like so. wp_enqueue_style(‘child-theme-dep’,get_stylesheet_uri(),array(‘bootstrap-handle-here’)) We can easily know the child theme stylesheet url … Read more
First of all, it is a very bad idea to modify the original theme without creating a child theme. Disabling updates of such theme is even worse idea, because without updates, your site may get infected or attacked. So the long-term solution would be to: Check the version of modified theme. Download that version from … Read more
Start with “view source” of rendered HTML and then work backward from that, building a new theme by pulling whatever css, php files and functions from the parent as needed. (footnote – thank you for the pointer to the ‘dust me’ utility, I will check that out).
As said, it is bad practice to make modifications to any theme/plugin you are not the author of, the simple reason been, if you ever update that theme/plugin, all chnages will be lost. You should always create a child theme or a functionality plugin You said that you cannot get the parent’s stylesheet. There are … Read more
Child theme templates starts working before Parent theme, so if any similar template files (similar to parent theme) exists it tries to override the parent theme’s template – that’s the core thing about child theme. The right way to enqueue new stylesheet in Child theme to make it THE Child Theme is the following: <?php … Read more
Use: wp_enqueue_style( ‘test’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/css/test.css’ ); instead of get_template_directory_uri();
You can enqueue your own stylesheet by adding this to your child theme’s functions.php file: function wpa_custom_css(){ wp_enqueue_style( ‘wpa_custom’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/responsive.css’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpa_custom_css’, 999 ); This will load the file responsive.css located in your child theme directory. The priority is set very low (999) so it is more likely to appear … Read more
Check the parent theme’s functions.php. If properly written to support child themes, each of these functions should be wrapped in a conditional as follows: if ( ! function_exists( ‘theme_setup’ ) ) : function theme_setup() { // Parent Theme Setup Function Code } endif; add_action( ‘after_theme_setup’, ‘theme_setup’ ); What this does is when the parent theme’s … Read more