Child Theme

A child theme should be possible. Do it all the time.

You should create a folder containing at least a css file and a screenshot and upload it to folder wp-content > themes

The css file should contain at least this:

/*
 Theme Name:     GridBullettin Child
 Description:    GridBullettin Child Theme
 Author:         Guido van der Leest
 Template:       gridbullettin
*/

/* Imports styles from the parent theme */
@import url('../gridbullettin/style.css');

Note: a better way to import styles from parent theme is to create a funcions file in your child theme with this:

<?php
function enqueue_child_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_child_styles' );
?>

Guido

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Guido

So sorry I was sure that I had replied

yes child theme does work using your details above – although with correct spelling of bulletin ??

I have noticed that the font sizes can be a bit weird if I don’t use the whole CSS but not yet dug around as to why

Its still a fab working theme – so thank you and sorry again for not updating this post to say so

Sarah

I am very ashamed… I was not able to spell my own theme name correctly ??

It should use the font sizes from parent theme if you don’t have other sizes in child theme stylesheet. Sometimes a plugin has it’s own font sizes, which can cause a ‘conflict’.

Guido

it happens!! easily!

yeah the font size is strange – it seems to inherit “higher” up rather than flowing down and sometimes I have having to give a font-size:1.0em to lower tags which I would not normally need to do (like <p> <span> if the P has a large font size the span tag reverts to the body font size rather than P tag – anyway its hardly as issue just something I need to check on ??

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

No idea how to solve this right now, but an example would help me to understand this issue. Changing line-height might help?

Guido