Changing Footer Colour

Under themes on the same level as all the other themes. Now find the theme in the themes screen and click on activate.

Is the child theme supposed to show up as an option?? Or just Colorway? As of right now just colorway is an option…the child theme does not appear

Did you create a new folder in the themes folder:

wp-content
   themes
      colorway
      colorwaychild
        style.css (this would be your new one)

How did you create those?

What you have put above is how I created it.
Colorwaychild theme is its own folder under themes.

How did you create the new style.css file? Was it using a plain text editor and then uploading the new folder/file using FTP?

Oh wait a second – my totally stupid mistake – SORRY SORRY – change that name on the top line –

/*
Theme Name: ColorWay Child
Template: colorway
*/

@import url("../colorway/style.css");

Edit: DOH! says Jan. She beat me to the reply.

This is the problem: you cannot have the same Theme Name in two themes.

https://www.jdeventstyling.com/wp-content/themes/colorway-child/style.css

Make it read like so:

/*
Theme Name: ColorWay Child Theme
Template: colorway
*/

@import url("../colorway/style.css");

That should work then.

Side note to WPyogi: you’re going to go “DOH!” if that’s it. ?? “Take (mandatory!) breaks” remember? ??

Yeah, I just saw that too – DOH indeed! And I WAS just off for a couple of hours – LOL :)!

Ok this worked. I have activated the child theme.
Now should I try entering the stuff above for the footer? Or how do I proceed with that?

This completely erased our website though when I clicked view site?

None of the work we had done is there it is now back to Colorway as the “website” not the one we had created.

Yep, now add under that @import line:

.footer-navi {
    background-color: #2B4908;
}

Change that to whatever color you want.

Yes, you will need to redo theme options/settings in the child theme – they aren’t all transferred over :(.