How do themes provide support for child themes?
One of the requests on themeforest is that themes are required to provide child theme support.
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Versioning @import of parent theme’s style.css
Update my child theme every time the parent theme is updated to change a version string in style.css (e.g. @import url('../twentythirteen/style.css?ver=NEW_VERSION');). This creates an unnecessary and annoying link between parent theme version and child.
How do I dequeue a parent theme’s CSS file?
My parent theme (Starkers) adds a CSS file that I’m trying to remove (I want to use @import instead so I can override styles more easily). Starkers has the following in its functions.php:
Why does my child theme CSS get called twice?
I created a child theme according the WP docs and added the requisite function
Are custom inner theme folders in any way overridable by child themes?
Basically, I’m trying to override some files of the Uncode theme. But this is not a theme-specific question: it can be applied to any theme. The Uncode theme has a custom dir 'partials' (/uncode/partials/) that contains some layout elements. On my child theme I created a ‘partials’ folder as well (my-child-theme/partials), but the inner files seem not to be overridden. Is it normal? WP docs say that any file of the same name should be overridable, but is seems that’s not true. Am I doing something wrong?
Adding a second email address to a completed order in WooCommerce
Before I ask this question, I know there is a (legitimate) hesitation to answer questions here about Woo products since they have their own support and their users should be encouraged to use that. I am a paying Woo user but couldn’t solve this with their paid support, and my question is about overriding classes … Read more
How do I cleanly override a plugin’s CSS with a child theme?
I have taken it upon myself to adhere to WordPress conventions so I can have a clean, sexy child theme. However, I am unsure how to proceed on a certain issue.
Opinions and recommendations on the best barebones base theme
Preamble I’m finding myself building more and more WP sites “from scratch” as it were (ie: ignoring any theme designs out there and just creating a design wireframe purely on the needs of the client. Then I go out and either shop around a theme that has the right basic structure, or I start with … Read more
How to *remove* a parent theme page template from a child theme?
I’m using the TwentyTen theme to create a child theme, but I can’t seem to get rid of the ‘One column, no sidebar’ page template that is in the TwentyTen parent theme.
How to properly dequeue scripts and styles in child theme?
I made a parent theme and a child theme in one of my project. I enqueued CSS and JavaScripts in my parent theme like below: