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Shawn
Shawn

Reputation: 3369

Created a child theme but items are missing?

I setup a site to use a news theme. I already set up the site with content such as a logo in the header for example, etc. I then realized I needed to change some content and css so i set up a child theme as it says in the codex:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

The problem is when i activate the child theme, the logo is the placeholder logo that came with the theme and not the one i uploaded. In addition the css looks messed up. As per the documentation this is whats in my child themes styles.css

 In the newstheme-child/styles.css that i created
 /*
  Theme Name:     News Theme Child
  Template:       newstheme
 */

@import url("../newstheme/style.css");

Thats all I changed. Is there other configuration I need to setup? Or is there certain files I need to copy to the child folder?

Also will management of the theme in the admin work as it did before; such as moving page elements?

EDIT: It looks like the problems exist in the header and footer.

Additional note is that there are no customizations

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2570

Answers (1)

Shawn
Shawn

Reputation: 3369

There was hard coded logic in the header and footer of the theme where it was loooking for relative paths. Thus the child theme being one level down in the directory does not work. The fix is to change the parent theme or hard code into the child theme.

In my case I changed the theme out with a better written one, using the pagelines framework. It is a wordpress framework built on child themes and the pro dev version allows multisite; which is what I am using. This solved my issue.

Upvotes: 1

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