[sarahluo]

Hi There,

I am trying to create a child theme from Parabola. I followed the instructions on the WordPress Codex page. They say not to use @import in your child’s stylesheet, rather they say to wp_enqueue_styles in your child’s functions.php. I am doing this, but when I preview the child theme, the styles aren’t loading correctly. The colors are there, but the fonts and the slider do not display correctly.

I am not making any changes to the CSS, I want a child theme because I have some custom templates and PHP. Currently, I have to re-upload them every time the theme gets updated, so I am hoping to use a child theme, but since it seems that only half the stylesheet gets loaded, I’m not sure what to do.

Thanks!

Website: www.sarahsmathings.com

[Zed]

What code do you have in your child theme’s functions.php so far?

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[sarahluo]

Thanks for replying. I currently have this:

<?php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {

$parent_style = ‘parabola-style’; // This is ‘twentyfifteen-style’ for the Twenty Fifteen theme.

wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’ );
wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’,
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’,
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get(‘Version’)
);
}
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_theme_enqueue_styles’ );
?>

[sarahluo]

Hi there, have you been able to identify what I may be doing wrong? I noticed that the parabola style.css has a line importing the fontfaces.css file. Since my child style is not registering the fonts, could it be that I need to enqueue this stylesheet as well?

[Zed]

You don’t need to enqueue the child theme’s style, as WordPress does that, and I don’t think the wp_enqueue_script hooks the right place to do this (that normally gets outputted in the footer).

Try this code instead:

// enqueue parent theme styling
function child_parent_styling(){
	wp_enqueue_style( 'parabola-parent', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); // main style.css
}
add_action('wp_head','child_parent_styling', 4);

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[sarahluo]

That got it. Thanks so much!

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