Child theme

WordPress considers a child theme a separate theme, so you’ll have to reapply any custom menus or sidebars to the new theme by going to the Dashboard and selecting Widgets and Menus under Appearance, just like you did with the parent theme.

As for your second question, I’m not familiar with Virtue’s folder structure, but generally speaking, if the parent theme’s footer.php is located at parent theme/template/footer.php, then the child theme’s equivalent file should be at child theme/template/footer.php. If the parent theme’s footer.php is located in the parent theme’s folder, then the child theme’s equivalent file should be located in the child theme’s folder.

Yes folder structure needs to be the same as parent with virtue so you just need to create a template folder and put the footer.php file there.

Kadence Themes

Thanks for both of your kind reply!

The sidebars look ok, nothing missing in the sidebars after I activated the child theme. Do I still need to reapply the sidebars by adding the widgets again?

If the sidebars look fine to you, then there’s no need to change anything.

Thanks all for the answers!

As I am a newbie, the question I asked maybe silly. :p

Is my understanding correct that in the future if i need to change any codes in php docs or css (any docs in the parent theme), I need to copy it to the child theme in the relevant folder? What if i want to change the existing doc in child theme, for example, footer,php (already in child theme, also in parent theme), I just need to edit the footer.php in child theme is enough? no need to change the footer.php in parent theme any more? Please correct me if my understanding is wrong. Thanks a lot!

That’s correct. As Kadence Themes mentioned, don’t forget to maintain the same folder structure as the parent theme.

Thanks so much! Have a great weekend!