How can I make a Nirvana Child Theme?

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  • December 9th, 2015 at 13:10 #34367
    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

    December 13th, 2015 at 11:21 #34450
    Zed
    Cryout Creations mastermind

    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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    December 29th, 2015 at 20:21 #34975
    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

    January 5th, 2016 at 23:03 #35049
    Zed
    Cryout Creations mastermind

    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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