Child Theme

You can create child theme by no need to include anything in functions.php. You can change how functions.php work into your own style for example:

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'myBs4EnqueueScripts');
if (!function_exists('myBs4EnqueueScripts')) {
    function myBs4EnqueueScripts() {
        wp_enqueue_style('my-additional-css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/my-additional-css.css');
    }
}

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by vee.

Hi Vee,

Regarding this subject, I am using the following code in a child theme functions.php:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );

}

Using a style.css file within my child theme directory, I am applying styles to overwrite some bootstrap and plugin CSS. What I’m finding is that the child theme CSS gets enqueued before bootstrap and plugin CSS, but it should be the last to enqueue to maintain proper cascading and prevent use of !important in almost every overwriting CSS property.

Any ideas appreciated!

Lou,
I’m not an author of BS4 but I had pasted earlier…. Did you add the “Template” tag to the stylesheet?

/*
 * Theme Name:  Bootstrap Basic4 Child
 * Theme URI:   https://themes.optional.com/wordpress/mysite 
 * Description: Bootstrap Basic4 Child theme.
 * Template:    bootstrap-basic4
 * Text Domain: bootstrap-basic4-child

Try add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles', 11 );

Tip,

When loading the parent stylesheet from within the child theme, you of course need to ensure that the ID matches. For example the correct ID of the parent stylesheet is theme-exact-name, if you call it from your child theme as theme-exact-name-parent or else it won’t match and the parent stylesheet will load twice.

Not sure if this was an issue or not but just a heads up.