Copying Over Sections for Child Theme

  • Resolved Brian Thomas

    (@brianhumek)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Before starting this support request with platitudes on how awesome this theme is, I first had to go to the reviews section and give my glowing review. With that done, I have one question.

    I find while searching the forum, answers to my questions. But they start with something like this:

    “You would copy over the…

    What I need to know now is how do I copy over sections of code from the original theme files to the new child theme. I used a child theme generator and only have part of functions.php and style.css in the new child theme and a note saying:

    This child theme inherits templates from a parent theme, Hueman.

    Thanks for any help you can give.

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  • Hi Brian. You don’t really need a child theme generator. There is a pre-configured Hueman child theme available for download. Go to Theme Options and click the Help tab upper righ-thand corner. “Download the sample child theme” is one option. This will download the child theme zip file to your local computer. Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme > Choose File, browse to the zip file you downloaded, then Install Now. Back on the themes page you could activate the main Hueman theme, then delete your existing child theme, then activate the new Hueman-Child-Master theme.
    Now, if you check the file Editor, the default file list is for the child theme. You can change the “theme to edit” in the dropdown and select the parent Hueman theme. You could then open and copy code from the parent functions.php or style.css file, then go back to the child theme file list, open the same file and paste the code into the child theme file. You would then make your changes in the child theme file. For more extensive code changes, you would copy entire php files from the parent theme to your child theme, either via FTP or cPanel, and then make changes to the files in your child theme.
    Those are the basics. As you get going and start making changes, feel free to open new topics with specific questions and we’ll try to help.

    Thread Starter Brian Thomas

    (@brianhumek)

    Hey bdbrown,

    Thanks so much for the help. I’ve now downloaded the sample child theme and am running it.

    I’ve begun working on making my featured images smaller. I’ve read about two dozen threads on the subject and have now done some copying over to the functions.php in the child theme. Thanks for the help.

    I’ll open up a new thread on my current problems. But I’m first trying some more of what I’ve found on the forum already.

    Thanks,
    Brian

    Glad you found that helpful. If you don’t have any more questions here please mark the topic as resolved. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Brian Thomas

    (@brianhumek)

    Thanks for the help.

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