Child theme not inheriting most customize settings

  • Installed child theme downloaded/activated from your website and functions.php/styles.css inherited and working perfectly but…

    All the “Customize” settings in the parent theme are not inherited. Such as “Site Identity”, “Colors” and so on down the list. To resolve, luckily on my local dev environment not the live site, I reconfigured all that by opening another browser with parent theme activated and duplicating the settings manually over to the child.

    Obviously if I had setup/activated the child immediately after buying the premier theme and THEN configured the child from the beginning I’d not be in this dilemna and save extra work.

    My question is could this have been prevented with a different child theme configuration (i.e. more functions added beyond that in your downloaded child theme) for people adding the child them later? Or is this a WordPress limitation?

    Please confirm updating the non-activated parent theme to latest version does not reset the “Customize” settings when an activated child theme exists as well?

    I suspect without deep dive into this since I reconfigured already that these settings are in the database and tied to the parent? Or what’s going on?

    Note: I did this so I can update the parent premier theme without hacking.

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  • Thread Starter jgoldbloom

    (@jgoldbloom)

    BTW, to those admins with same issue prior to support response here (intended only for local development – backup dev first as always, not live site during the fix), install/activate one of the front end theme switcher plugins like MDC Theme Switcher for example. Then setup another admin account and login with that in a separate browser and switch that one to the parent theme for copying settings to the admin account with child them activated. Deactivate switcher if not needed, test, backup live, publish dev to live, done.

    FYI – a safe/easier way than exporting/importing DB content and while working only on your dev site, worked for me.

    I had the same problem and traced it back to the Panoramic functions.php line 148 where it enqueues the ‘panoramic style’ for some reason this also queues the child style. I noticed when I tried to customize my style-mobile and had 2 copies of my child-style.css loading.

    I deleted line 148 from the original functions.php but this is not a long term solution. This is a problem for Panoramic to solve. Panoramic please fix this!! I don’t want to babysit your theme everytime it updates.

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