Child theme not keeping parent styles

  • Hello –

    I just downloaded Make and I love it. I’m even thinking about upgrading to the full version but here’s the issue. I’ve spent a lot of time customizing the site, but I want to center the header menu so I downloaded the chid theme from your site and uploaded it into word press.

    I know that child themes are supposed to inherit all the characteristic of the parent but when I active the child, the menu turns into links with all the stylizing gone and most of the colors revert back to the out of the box. Basically, it’s not keeping the stylization.

    I have not made any changes to the code.

    The website but I’ve reverted it back to the parent theme for the time being.

    Thanks you.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

  • Hi there,

    You are correct. WordPress considers a child theme to be an entirely separate theme from the parent with regard to theme options. If you have configured options for the parent theme in the Customizer before installing the child theme, these options will not carry over to the child.

    You can either configure the options again for the child theme, or try to migrate the theme options using a plugin such as Theme Customizations Cloner.

    If you do decide to try Make Plus, you won’t lose any customization settings though (because it’s a plugin, not a theme). So there’s that…

    Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful! Let us know if anything else crops up for you!

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • The topic ‘Child theme not keeping parent styles’ is closed to new replies.