Child theme leads to “Page not found 404 error”

  • I wanted to add a snippet to the function.php so I installed the OceapWP Child Theme. However, upon installation my pages displayed the message “Page could not be found” so I took out the snippet and tried again. Yet, the same message appears when I try and access pages on my live site. Therefore, I know it is something related to the child theme- can anybody please help? Thanks.

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  • Hello @finch3107,

    You already opened a topic about this issue.
    Please follow that topic; here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/child-theme-leads-to-page-not-found-404-error/.

    Thank you.
    Best Regards

    WordpressUser1

    (@betterlifereviews)

    I had constant issues, particularly related to the child theme. Finally gave up and using Astra with zero problems. Ocean WP is a cool theme, but it can be buggy and complicated, and the developer team doesn’t seem to keep up.

    Plugin Contributor Marko OceanWP

    (@wpfleek)

    Hi @betterlifereviews,

    Thanks for your input. Bet let’s clear something up for potential beginners reading this:

    1. OceanWP child theme has been built per WordPress developer guidelines:
    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/
    https://github.com/oceanwp/oceanwp-child-theme

    2. A user can have “issues with a child theme” mostly in these cases:

    2.1 The child theme has been created using a plugin which is calling for specific scripts in the functions.php file of a child theme while those scripts have been removed at some point in the future. There’s really an easy way to call all scripts like it’s done in the original theme and this can be altered by simply modifying the code calling the scripts. Unrelated to developers of any theme.

    2.2 Custom codes added to functions.php file of a child theme are incorrect or faulty for whatever reason, which is the cause of 99.99% of the “issues”. It was also the case in this topic. Unrelated to developers of any theme.

    2.3 A template a user has copied from the original theme to the child theme potentially causing compatibility issues because the original template has changed. This is developers keeping up, and we always add to the changelog a list of templates that have been altered for this specific reason. After that, it’s the user’s turn to keep up.

    To summarize, when it comes to child themes – there is no way for “developers to keep up” and you can’t experience issues with a child theme because of the parent theme developers.

    In regards to zero problems with your website – connections to your website are being terminated due to a URL:Phishing error, so I would recommend checking that out https://postimg.cc/Q9Nz1ZNR

    Best of luck

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