Making a child them out of a child them

  • Resolved doppeljim

    (@doppeljim)


    4 years ago

    Hi there

    I am using the theme Barnsbury and want to create a child theme out of it. But it does not work. on the theme-site on www.remarpro.com I get the notice that “barnsbury-wpcom” (that’s the name of the folder) is not a valid parent-theme. I then recognised that barnsbury itself is a child-theme of the theme Varia.

    is that the problem? is it not possible to create a child theme out of a child-theme?

    cheers

    Dani

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    As you found, you cannot have a “grandchild” theme.

    Thread Starter doppeljim

    (@doppeljim)

    okay. Thanks for your help!

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    You have a few options:
    – Make a copy of the child theme, change its name so that the auto-update mechanism will not update it. Customise the child theme, and look after incorporating updates into it later on. Not an ideal situation.
    – Use this plugin to let you customise your theme without touching the child. Details here:
    https://github.com/woothemes/theme-customisations

    Of course you can use the customizer to add CSS to your site.

    Thread Starter doppeljim

    (@doppeljim)

    may thanks for these further options! Since I want to keep it as simple as possible, I will look for an other theme that is not a child-theme yet.

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