child theme header

Theme options / settings don’t carry over to other themes, including child themes, so you need to redo them in your child theme. Is that what you have tried? You do need to have the child theme active in order to do that.

Thanks for responding. When I activate the child, and try to upload, or insert images from the media library into the header, they don’t work. just get the generic “graphic not found” box. The files I have in the child theme are: style.css, and rtl.css. I edited the parent header to look the way I wanted, but how do I do that to the child with just those two files.

below is the beginning code in my child style.css..the rest of the code in the child style.css was copied from the parent folder.

/*
Theme Name:     Twenty Eleven Child
Description:    Child theme for Twenty Eleven
Author:         DW
Template:       twentyeleven
Version: 1.5
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: dark, light, white, black, gray, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, fixed-width, flexible-width, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, flexible-header, full-width-template, microformats, post-formats, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, translation-ready
Text Domain: twentyeleven
*/
@import url("https://lonesomepineknives.com/themes/twentyeleven/style.css");

Ah, looks like your @import line is wrong — it should be this:

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

You also shouldn’t have any CSS code in the new stylesheet except changes that you are making – i.e. don’t copy the stylesheet contents from the parent one.

See if these changes fix the problem.

everything is ok now except the header images. still shows default twenty eleven images.

On the Header options page..”Choose an image from your computer” and “Or choose an image from your media library” go thru the process but don’t display in admin or the front end. I get the black box.

i will be good to go if we can fix this WPyogi.

Can you post a link to your site? Also try deactivating any plugins.

i have the child activated now. will leave it up till uu respond.
the only plugins i have active are NeaxtGEN Gallery and WP e-commerce.

Link is https://www.LonesomePineKnives.com

I cleaned the style.css in the child. Wiped everything after import command.

Okay, that looks good — though you do have a stray bracket in the stylesheet – be sure to get rid of that – it will cause problems if you add styles there.

So, are you adding the custom header from the custom header screen? (Sorry to sound redundant…just making sure we cover things :). )

Probably a good idea to deactivate those plugins just in case. Also, do you have any caching on?

just going to “appearance-header” where you change header stuff. Can’t change, upload, or retrieve from “media library”.

not sure about the “caching thing”

Hm, that’s definitely weird. So turn off those plugins and then via FTP, reset the plugins folder:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F

They can sometimes be cranky and not fully deactivate and still cause problems. Do you have the most current versions of those plugins and WP?

de-activated wp e-commerce plugin. nextGen gallery plugin runs the gallery pages. they wont work without it.

yes have current versions of both plugins

will the nextgen gallery plugin cause the header to screw up?

Seems unlikely as it’s widely used, but these are the standard troubleshooting steps. And sometimes plugins can just be weird.