[Pieter Keuzenkamp]

Hi There !

I made a Nirvana child theme but it is not working properly.
I have made a folder nirvana-child and I’ve copied the style.css file and the index.php and frontpage.php (because this file has modifications made to it) files to the child folder.

I also added a line “@import url(“../nirvana/style.css”);” to the style.css file which I made emtpy except for the top lines of the file. Here I left the Theme Name, Thehe URI etc. intact like I read in an article on making a child theme.

Can you tell me what more I need to do to make my child theme work properly?

Regards,

Pieter

[Zed]

A child theme’s style.css file has a different structure than the parent theme (theme name is definitely different since you cannot have a child theme with the same name as the parent theme).

/*
Theme Name: Nirvana Child Theme
Description: Child theme created for *purpose*
Author: Your name
Template: nirvana
Version: 0.1
*/
 
@import url("../nirvana/style.css");

Other than this file, everything else is optional and you should only include files you are customizing.

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[VC Nickels]

Zed

I was tinkering around with a child theme for another of your themes and searched your forums for anything in particular that I might be missing. Child Themes are pretty simple basically but your themes do all sorts of nifty things so I wanted to see if I needed to add anything else.

In your comment above you use the @import method to get the parent style.css file, I’ve used enqueuing in a functions.php file in my child theme. I will be using some custom functions so I would have a functions.php file in my child theme anyway but there seem to be some debate about @import vs. enqueuing.

Amy particular reason you use @import?

Cheers,

VC Nickels

[Zed]

If you use a functions.php, use enqueue as that can be make loading styles a couple of nanoseconds faster for the browser.

My example was for the simplest child theme (with only a style.css file).

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