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When I deactivate all plugins and change to a Twenty theme, it automatically fills in the alt tag with the file name when I do not specify alt text in WordPress.

No, the alt box isn’t mandatory (I’m just using the regular WordPress media library). But if I leave the alt box blank, it does not render like you say it should. Please see the attached screenshot. For the image of the Christmas lights, I’ve left the alt text box blank, and as you can see from the code, alt=”” does not appear at all.

https://cougardigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-05-29-08_36_00-Personalized-Digital-Christmas-Card-Video-Services-_-Customized-Video.png

Hi Andrew, I thought that may be the case, but I’m not sure how to make this happen within WordPress since it doesn’t give direct access to the code. Do I enter simple quotation marks in the alt text box in the media library?

Resolved!

Ah, that bracket must have done it. When I was copying and pasting from the parent theme I must have not gone far enough. I added the bracket and the red text changed back to purple.

Thank you very much!

Here’s an example. I just went into the PARENT theme and changed

a {
    color: #775395;
    text-decoration: none;
}

to

a {
    color: #ff0000;
    text-decoration: none;
}

The contact us link at the bottom of this page: https://ad-vax.com/about-us/ is red, even though the CHILD theme still has

a {
    color: #775395;
    text-decoration: none;
}

So changes I made to the parent theme are not being overridden by the child theme.

Make more sense? I understand it must be difficult to figure this out, given that the parent theme and the child theme should be pretty much identical. Here, however, is a small example of my point.

Thanks for your continued help!

Here’s what I put in my child theme that did not override the parent theme styling. At the time, it did not change the colors of anything.

content ul {color: #333;}

content ol {color: #333;}

.access a { color: #333;}

p {color: #333;}

.widget ul li a {
    color: #333;
}

However, when I tried to include this in the child style sheet a week or so later, it worked:

.featured-text .featured-title, .featured-content {
display:none;
}

Again, when the initial update occurred, I needed to immediately preserve the branding of the site and so made the color changes directly to the parent (which then were reflected on the site).

Thanks for your help!

https://ad-vax.com

You rock. Thanks so much for your help!

I can’t make the child theme active, but that’s okay because it’s fixed! I just assumed I would have to customize the PHP code to reference the other style sheet, so I was including “../interface/style.css”.

It’s funny…there are so many articles that tell you what code to use, but none of them give real instruction on where you need to put in your specific info and where you should just go with the code they give you.

Thank you SO much for your help! Now in order to override some of the individual PHP templates, I just copy over the files I want to alter into the child theme folder, then manipulate them there?

Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply!

I actually do have the @import outside of the comment block. I just had taken it out for testing purposes and pasted back incorrectly for the sake of an example on here.

So since the @import method didn’t work (even when done correctly, sans the functions.php file), what would the correct functions.php code be? I guess I am just unsure about what parts I’m supposed to replace (do I leave ‘parent-style’ or replace it with ‘interface’?).

Thanks again!

That worked! You rock!

Seriously. Thanks so much for your help!

Ashley

Got the spacing. Bullets are still appearing though.

Ashley

Thanks, that did the trick with floating the image.

Now I just have to figure out how to modify the spacing between entries and get rid of the bullet points.

Thanks so much for your help!

Ashley

Hi Mat,

Thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately, that didn’t work.

I tried deleting the site’s cache, so I’m really not sure where to go from here…

Thanks again,

Ashley