I’ll write some notes on the sometimes dumb problems I meet while developing child themes. I won’t be verbose, I’ll just share the solutions that worked for me. Would be appreciated if you share a better one in the comments.
Problem: The parent’s style.css is not loading
Possible cause: forgotten Template: in the child style.css. The name to choose for Template field depends on the name of directory where the parent theme is. Case-sensitive.
Solution:
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/* Theme Name: uReport Theme URI: Description: Themerush Child Theme developed for news media. Author: Shtrak! Author URI: http://shtrak.eu/it/ <strong>Template: themerush</strong> Version: 1.0.0 License: GNU General Public License License URI: license.txt */ |
Problem: The child’s style.css doesn’t override the parent’s one
Possible cause: get_tempate_directory() is creating the problem, as in style.css is searched for in the parent directory not the child one, therefore s/template/stylesheet/.
Solution: When the style.css of the parent theme is included as it should – using wp_enqueue_style() in functions.php a working solution is to add action in the child’s functions.php to predefine the path to the style.css **sigh**
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function child_theme_enqueue_styles() { <span style=“padding-left: 30px;”>wp_enqueue_style( ‘style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri().‘/style.css’ );</span> } add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘child_theme_enqueue_styles’ ); |
But that’s quite stupid because if there are styles included originally after parent’s version of style.css the above will override them as well. rage.
I need to come up with different solution.
Oh well, solution:
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function child_theme_enqueue_styles() { <span style=“padding-left: 30px;”>wp_enqueue_style( ‘style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri().‘/style.css’ );</span> } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘child_theme_enqueue_styles’ ); |
Simple as that. Conclusion: I’m an idiot.
Edit: It’s actually absolutely the same as the previous solution in the means of effects.
I actually ended up enqueuing the same styles as the parent’s theme in the same order and where i wanted to override I put get_stylesheet_directory_uri() instead of get_template_directory_uri() because there was some problem with the order of including therefore some previosly enqueued styles were not overridden.. I just.. **sigh**
Ahaaa, actually you just neet to change the handle parameter. dude..
At the end you don’t need to enqueue all the styles just enqueue your child styles with different handle. heh :3