sarsells57

Thank you, that worked a treat!

i have solved this now, with the use of a plugin called display widgets. You can put different content in different pages, so I am using the default template on all pages.

I have twenty twelve too, and it is not showing up.

with regard to the above post, did you make a copy of header php and add it to the child theme, and just delete this line? I have just done this and still nothing.

my site is at https://www.helpingpaws.co.uk. The menu is wrapping on my ipad, so I hoped this would sort it?

Thanks Janet. I have all the pages in now. I have made one or two drop down ones. To the end of the items it is 760 px. Is tht too wide?

I will look at the suggested plugin.
Kind regards

Sorry to say, my menu is still wrapping on my ipad. I really dont know what to do?

So sorry to bother you again. I notice that my menu is still wrapping on my ipad. I need to add one or two more items to it as well.
I am also unable to make focus and hover work on the menu. It works in the drop down but not the main menu. Also I cant find any css for the spacing between menu items, but I am assuming that it is auto, depending on the amount of items?
https://www.helpingpaws.co.uk

That was it!!! all sorted now. At last, I can get on and make some changes. THanks SOOO much.

#stephencottontail i have found out that a plugin called styles has been installed. I have deactivated it as it overrides child themes I believe.
So, now what I have is a site with no custom styling. The site is not picking up the child css. I would prefer to edit the css if possible and not use styles plugin as it does not allow one to add padding etc.

Janet, thank you, but unfortunately it isn’t. If I inspect the nev bar, where I have added padding-left:10px; it is not there, and when I inspect the element I see it is referring to the parent.

Thank you for looking.

Well there is good news and bad news.
I deleted my child theme and started again. All I have in my child folder now is the style sheet. AND my theme now has all the possible customizations through the dashboard that I have in my parent theme.
So, all the customization I did ( and it was not a lot) is being picked up. The bad news is, the css to the new style sheet is not being picked up.
I have pasted my css file here but I am calling it a day.
Thanks so much. Not sure if this topic is finished as I have not been able to do what I asked about to begin with, but at least I have made some progress!

/*
 Theme Name:   Twenty twelve child
 Theme URI:    https://helpingpaws.co.uk/twentytwelve-child/
 Description:  Twenty twelve Child Theme
 Author:       Sarah Sellers
 Author URI:
 Template:     twentytwelve
 Version:      1.0.0

*/

@import url("../twentytwelve/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here/*

@media screen and (min-width: 600px)
.main-navigation li:last-child {
margin-right: 0;
}

.main-navigation ul.nav-menu, .main-navigation div.nav-menu > ul {
    padding-left: 10px;
}

https://pastebin.com/2GhcUKm7

OK I am going to have to mess around with the child folder now as I did make some other changes today. I added a second menu to the footer. I will delete anything from the child folder I have not edited.

Please let me know what you make of the pastebin file. Thanks again

I have never used pastebin before, so I hope this is correct.

<script src=”https://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=2GhcUKm7″></script&gt;

Perhaps I have set up the child theme incorrectly.
I have seen two different versions of what to do.

What I did, (and I think I found this in the codex) was duplicate the whole twenty twelve folder, and renamed it twentytwelve child. I created a new css file as per instructions with name etc and pointed it to the parent theme. This css file is in the same directory as the theme folders.
I just watched a tutorial on YouTube, and all they did was create an empty folder in which They put the new css file, with the same info that I have done.

This afternoon I added some items to my css file and it did not change the look of my site. So, I edited the css file within the child theme folder and that did the trick. So, i am a little confused!

Once I get over this initial hurdle I should be fine. I have worked with Joomla sites more recently and wordpress had changed a lot since I last used it. On te whole I think it looks a lot easier to work with.

Hi
Thanks for looking at this for me. Here are images from both the main and child theme.
https://i.imgur.com/35MDno6.png

View post on imgur.com

I have had a look and there are no different plugins. I just have more options for customization through the Appearance>customize, in the parent version.

Well i think just through the theme customizer, however I took the site over from someone who was not able to continue, so I will have a look and see if there were any plugins added. Would a plugin not carry over from main them to child?