[Pete]

I have made a child theme of Mantra, but it won’t take any css changes. Is it possible Mantra won’t allow child themes? Below is the style.css code I have used. It should work.

/*
Theme Name: Mantra Child
Version: 1.0
Theme URI:
Description: A child theme for Mantra
Author: pgb
Template: mantra
*/

/* Import layout */
@import url(../mantra/style.css);

[Kay]

Mantra not only allows child themes, it embraces them.

Your mistake here is not entering a Theme URI. If you don’t have one or just don’t want to enter one you must delete that line completely. You can’t have ‘Theme URI:’ and then nothing. Delete that line completely.

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[Pete]

Thank you. I’ve deleted the Theme URI but it still doesn’t work. I added the URI but it didn’t work. I also have made a child of 2012 with the Theme URI left empty and it works, even though I have left it empty.

Could it be anything else that is causing my child theme css of Mantra to not work?

 

[Pete]

Many apologies, my 2012 child theme does not work with the Theme URI missing. Very sorry to mislead you.

[Tche]

Hi,

I am also using a child-theme and it works (more or less), the code I set in my style.css is as following:

<code>/*

Theme Name:     Mantra Child

Description:    Thème enfant du thème Mantra

Author:         Thierwish

Author URI:     http://AllWeWish.org

Template:       mantra

Version:        0.1.0

*/

@import url(“../mantra/style.css”);</code>

I think the brakets in yours are missing. Just copy-paste-adapt to check.

If it still doesn’t work, check also the name of your child folder:  “mantra-child”  and its location: next to the parent one (not inside) I hope it can help.

I said it works “more or less” because all my customizations are not taken… but some of these are well.

So I am moving the pure stylish one in the “Mantra Settings”//”Miscellaneous”//Custom CSS through the wordpress admin because these are overwriting everything (sorry if words are not exactly the same, I am working in French) I ll keep my customized templates in the child-theme and my child style.css empty…

Cheers,

Tche

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