Solved it thanks to [at]OnethingSimple and @milo. It was the W3 Total Cache plugin. I removed it from my server and everything works fine. Here’s the path I had to take. Step 1 – went into my network admin on the site having the problem to confirm that W3TC was not activate or network active … Read more
The way you enqueueing your stylesheets are wrong. Someone very ignorant keeps changing my edit in the codex. The way you are doing this loads your child stylesheet twice. I have already done a post on this that you should check out here The correct way is add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘theme_enqueue_styles’ ); function theme_enqueue_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( … Read more
Child Theme Issue – activated but does not show in preview
I wrote a script called wp-diff you can use on the command line to implement the comparison step Brad Dalton mentioned. If you have many sites, a command line tool is far faster to use + can get to all your WordPress install files, with no requirement to change the Apache (or other server) config. … Read more
Actually, there is no “correct” directory structure. One of the great strengths of WordPress is how many options exist for configuration. Tricks like using a local config file, for example, allow you to work in so many different ways. That being said, what you have outlined is a very standard file structure and should suit … Read more
Yes. There is a definitely a point where you just want to create a new theme. Unless you are writing more than a thousand lines of code, I would not be worried about performance problems with your child theme, if the parent theme is well-constructed. Adding conditional statements to test if scripts and styles are … Read more
Problem solved. .site-header { background: url(<?php header_image(); ?>) no-repeat scroll top; background-size: 900px auto!important; }
Yes, if you need to dequeue parent stylesheet, go ahead. No problem with that. From the point of programming there is no problem. But as a developer I would suggest to override the stylesheet from your child theme. In the end your thinking matters. There are various ways to accomplish anything. Have fun !
Adding translation files to a child theme
As jdm2112 suggested, the WP Codex had a well-detailed explanation. A few observations based on your question: The text domain shouldn’t contain spaces The “Template” value should be the same as the directory name of your parent theme (check it) Make sure the child theme directory name is different from the parent theme, convention is … Read more