Child theme implementation

Hey. You can use the @import line to pull in all the content from the expound style.css file:

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

You can then add any custom CSS for your site below this line.

Thanks for that Siobhan, I’m stumbling through this slowly, my immediate problem now is that I get a “Theme is broken” message, telling me my stylesheet is missing. I have uploaded it.

Is your stylesheet named style.css? Do you mind providing a link to your site? Is it https://www.twintownprojects.com?

Hi Siobhan, I just got it sorted! I had named the style sheet expound-child. I changed it to style.css & that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the quick response. No doubt I’ll be back!

Glad you got it working! ??

Okay, it’s all exploded! My menu has gone ape! https://ilase.co.uk/blog/iLase_wp/

Right, not too sure what I did, but I changed the theme altogether, played about with things and decided to have another crack at expound & all is well it seems. Thanks for the help anyways

Whoa, spoke too soon. Just noticed that I hadn’t re activated the child theme. Once I did that, it’s all broken again. Tearing hair out as I type!!

Hey. I just had a look at your child theme’s style.css file and noticed you’d copied and pasted the contents of expound.css into it. This is great, but you’re now missing the contents of the parents theme’s reset.css file, which is important in terms of the site’s layout.

Could you include the following line exactly as below:

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

This will make sure that the contents of the parent theme’s expound.css and reset.css files are both included. If you include the import line then there is no need to copy and paste the contents from either files into the child theme’s style.css file, in fact doing this will just create duplicate code and unnecessary bulk.

Oh, you little beauty! That did it! Thank you, thank you thank you!!!

That’s great. ?? Just one more look at your child theme’s style.css, please delete the following line:

@import url("../expound/css/expound.css");

This is unneeded now as you’re called in the contents of expound.css via the style.css import call.

Thanks again. Done. Now to set about getting it to look right.

Great. Glad you got it working. ?? ??

Any custom CSS you need to add should now be done below the import line and will override the theme’s CSS. Good luck with it.

If you get stuck with anything in future please post back in these forums (under a different thread) and hopefully you’ll find someone to help.

Thanks again, X

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