Jason Tyde

You bet. A picture says a 1000 words and all. ??

I was able to modify the theme-specific background color successfully.

Unfortunately removing and reinstalling Sketch as the parent theme did not resolve the issue with the Social menu.

Yet, the information you provided about the theme-specific colors led me to make another couple theme-specify changes: 1. I reassigned the logo image I was using and 2. I reassigned the existing Header & Social menus to the appropriate theme locations in the Customizer and that resolved the rendering issues I’ve noticed so far.

I’ll now do a deeper review of the child to see if I can find any more rendering discrepancies. If I do not find any I will turn my attention back to the pagination issue that started the thread. If I do find any I will share those details and ask for more help.

You’ve been great and I appreciate your help Chad!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Jason Tyde.

Unfortunately Kathryn’s enqueue function does not load everything up for me, although it loads much of the styling. These two full-page images show the differences.

The Sketch parent:

My Sketch child:

While much of the styling is reproduced in the child, a quick review shows that the background color and the social menu are not being rendered accurately. So there is some style that is not coming through and I do not know how to pull it into the child. Please help.

My child’s function.php:

<?php

function sketch_child_scripts() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sketch_child_scripts' );

Two questions: 1) How do I identify which .css (and maybe .js) files are missing? 2) How do I successfully enqueue them in the child?

Thanks to both of you for all your help with this child-creation issue.

Hi Kathryn,

Thanks for your help.

I tried the enqueuing function your propose and I’m seeing the same result.

I think all these different versions of the enqueuing function are missing something with respect to dependencies.

How can I uncover the dependencies and ensure they all get enqueued?

Unfortunately I’m hung up on creating the child theme and have not been able to try out the re-coded pagination. I’m using the following style.css in my new ‘sketch-child’ directory:

/*
Theme Name: Sketch Child
Description: A clean, responsive portfolio theme with options for a custom site logo, a featured content slider, and lots of room to share your work. This child theme changes the portfolio page pagination to move forward rather than backward through the projects.
Version: 1.0.0
Author: Jason Tyde
Author URI: https://www.jasontyde.com
Template: sketch
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Text Domain: sketch-child
Tags: featured-images, full-width-template, one-column, photography, portfolio, right-sidebar, rtl-language-support, theme-options, translation-ready, two-columns
*/

And have copied & edited the following code into the child’s functions.php:

<?php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {

    $parent_style = 'parent-style'; // This is 'sketch-style' for the Sketch theme.

    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
?>

When I activate the child theme and reload a page the parent’s style is not being inherited properly. I think there may be an error in the $parent_style variable, but my experiments have not solved it. The referenced page describing how to build a child theme has not helped me solve this issue either. Nor has reading the wp_enqueue_style() function description gotten me there.

There may be some style dependencies I’m not handling properly, yet I don’t know how to pull them all in just yet.

Can you please help me get the child theme working just like the parent?

Thanks for your help.

Very helpful Chad. I’ve made child themes before and have some experience with WordPress’ code and web development in general. I’ll give it a go and confirm here if it worked for me or not.

Hi Shireling,

Thanks for helping me out here.

Yes, I would like this pagination adjustment to only apply to the portfolio and not the blog as I will have both content sources.

More code is fine by me if I can get the behavior I seek. ??

Cheers, Jason

That did the trick Ryan. Thanks!

It was a permissions issue and is now figured out.