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Hey again. Thanks for the answers, Katch and Esmi.

It took me a while to see this, but apparently windows was adding a .txt extension to my .php files that wasn’t visible on my desktop. It does, however, show up once uploaded to the server, but I was so convinced the problem was in my header that I didn’t see it until now.

Made the necessary changes, and the files are showing up in my editor now. Thank you for answering my questions!

Hey esmi.

Thanks! Does that apply to any file within the theme’s folder as well? php files, specifically. I’m not trying to double-post but you might be able to answer this for me (my other topic’s been pushed back several pages):

Do .php files need to have their header information changed from the default when used in a child theme? I know this was the case with style.css but I can’t seem to find a specific resource on integrating custom versions of the php files into a child theme, particularly regarding the header.

Thanks again for your help.

Hi there, alchymyth.

My child theme is the current theme in use by my blog.

Yes, pages.php is a template. It’s from TwentyTen, although I’ve made a few edits. All the .php files are in the directory wp-content/themes/2010-child

So it sounds like my problem is the fact that I didn’t edit the headers for the php files? I’ve found a lot of information about changing the header for style.css (which I did) but I’m not sure what I need to do for my php files. The theme name is 2010-child. Just not sure where I’d put it in… If you know, could you tell me exactly what changes I need to make (I’m new to all of this). Here’s my pages.php header:

/**
* The template for displaying all pages.
*
* This is the template that displays all pages by default.
* Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
* and that other ‘pages’ on your WordPress site will use a
* different template.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/

Thanks so much for any help! Been trying to figure this one out for days.

Hi Damian. Thanks for responding. I do have FTP access.

So is that the easiest way to do it, then? There’s no way to make php files visible in the wordpress editor when working with a child theme? If so, that’s fine… Just looking for confirmation that I can’t somehow make them show up in my editor (if so, how?).

Also, do you know if there’s any need to edit the headers of .php files when including them in a child theme? I’ve edited a few of them and just want to make sure they won’t be overwritten when I update.

Cheers! ??

Self bump for help? :O

I’m just a bit worried that the .php files (which I’ve edited from the default TwentyTen) are going to get overwritten when I update wordpress, since they don’t seem to be showing up in my editor…

Updating with a solution if anyone else has a similar question.

I found FeedBurner.com which, if you put your RSS feed URL into it, will generate an HTML friendly code you can paste into any of your pages. Yay. ??

Thanks Zoonini… I’ll give these a look. ??

I’ll look elsewhere then, thanks.

No need to be sorry. Thanks for the info.

Still working my way through the help files. I’ve been at it for hours, literally.. just posted here to see if someone could help me with the FTP stuff as I seem to have hit a roadblock that I can’t resolve on my own (as of now) :3

Ah well. I’m not that hip to the lingo, I’m afraid. :}

I don’t know how to distinguish if what I have is a new theme or a Child Theme. I think I’d assume it’s the former, I guess.

I thought that’s what making child theme was, essentially? I’m just trying to preserve it as a separate theme so that when I update WordPress (and subsequently twenty ten) I don’t lose my alterations.

Is what your proposing something I can do without resorting to FTP stuff? If so, what would I do? ??

…I should mention that if there’s a way to do the whole ‘FTP’ thing from a browser, that might be better suited to my abilities. FileZilla looks confusing. ??