Can a child theme be used with Responsive 4.0

  • Resolved Creativeme

    (@jane65)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    I have decided to rebuild my site as my main site broke when I updated to Responsive 4.0. I have found though that the customizer doesn’t provide enough options to rebuild my site exactly how it was, and so want to add my own custom css. Do I create a child theme like I had for my old site to add custom css, functions etc?

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  • Hi @jane65

    If you plan to make only minor modifications, you can go ahead with creating a child theme.

    @prajakti
    Why minor modifications? What do you mean by this, please? Child themes are not normally restricted in such a way.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by mica123.
    Thread Starter Creativeme

    (@jane65)

    Hi, thanks for your reply. I need to add 3 extra widgets to my custom home page. On my old site in the child theme I added the extra widgets to functions.php and also to the sidebar-home.php page. If I do this now in my new childtheme, would further updates of the theme affect my new widgets? Thanks

    I’ve done a similar thing. I added the widgets to function.php and use them in my child theme along with Responsive 4.xx. In my experience any updates should be reflected in the child theme.

    Theme Author CyberChimps

    (@cyberchimps)

    @jane65 @mica123
    A child theme automatically inherits the parent theme’s features, styles, and templates.

    In Responsive 4, the following changes were done:
    div id=content-outer has been changed to class outer-content, this was done for W3C compatibility. Please use class .content-outer in your custom css.

    Also, refer to https://docs.cyberchimps.com/responsive/upgrading-to-4.0.0
    Responsive continues to support child theme. However, you have to keep updating the child theme to keep it compatible with Responsive.

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