How to create a child theme?

Hello @kbzati

Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately, Spectra One does not offer a child theme as of now. However, we can certainly help you with any issues you are experiencing with your current child theme or guide how to create one. You can follow this guideline- https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/

Please let us know what specific problems you are encountering with your child theme, and we’ll do our best to assist you.

Hi Mehedi,
I followed the instructions in the shared link but it did not work the way I wanted it to work. I had to manually copy and paste the header and footer to each of the templates for the child theme. Apart from copying the templates folder and parts folder, should I do anything else?

I really want to build some sites with this theme because I’m a loyal Astra user, but I can’t be copying and pasting headers and footers when it’s time for me to develop much more complex sites.

If you can help me I thank you in advance.

Hello @kbzati

As mentioned earlier, Spectra One does not unfortunately support child themes out of the box. But there is a way to get the result you expect using this plugin?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/create-block-theme/

This plugin will help you make your child theme easily.

Steps to follow
1. Be sure to have Spectra One theme active
2. Install this plugin (?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/create-block-theme/?)
3. Make all your changes using the editor eg: Header, Home pages, etc.
4. Then follow these steps:?https://d.pr/i/VmIGBq
5. This should generate a zip file like this:?https://d.pr/i/8a9SqP

If you notice there are extra folders in this case like templates, patterns, and parts because I had made changes from the editor in the backend.

Now you can make similar changes from the editor and generate a zip that can be used as a base for your other child templates.

Hope this helps ??

Hi @thebengalboy ,

Excellent response from Brainstorm Force support team as always.

I had tried another plugin to create child themes for parent block themes, but it didn’t work as expected. I hope this one works perfectly.

Thank you very much for helping me out.

Best regards

Hi,

I’m no designer, so it’s a bit hard to get the Spectra theme work as I want. To be honest, it’s a nightmare in terms of usability.

1. Why I’m not able to create a page with all content like in any other themes?

2. I tried to create the child theme as you said, but the homepage now is broken and footer and header are gone.

It would be great to have this theme more user-friendly. It’s lightning fast and looks great, but it makes no fun to use it.

Hi @dennisth19,

Thanks for writing back.

1. Why I’m not able to create a page with all content like in any other themes?

Please let us know the issues you are experiencing while trying to create pages so that we can assist better.

2. I tried to create the child theme as you said, but the homepage now is broken and footer and header are gone.

To help better with this, I would request you create a support ticket from here : https://wpspectra.com/support/.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards.

Judith.

Hi @thebengalboy and BSF,

Before updating from Spectra One 1.0.1. to 1.0.2 I used the tip from @mehedi (Plugin Create Block Theme) to create a child theme from my previous Spectra One. But the child theme looked completely different. Header & footer were missing and also the content was arranged completely different.

How do I get a decent child theme with all my previous changes. So that I can update the Spectra One without, for example, the fonts change again. Thank you for a solution.

Regards Martina

Hi @markeck

As per the forum rules, older or resolved topics should not be bumped. Instead, please create a new topic or open a support ticket with us.

I hope to hear from you and assist you in resolving your issue.

Thanks

So, we can’t update the theme because we will loose the changes?

Child Theme is the best method to avoid the problem updating theme and not loosing information.

Hi @davidperez,

Would you please start your own thread?

Let’s help the forum stay “clean” as per the forum guidelines.

Have a nice day!

Hi

I created my child child theme of spectra onewith?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/create-block-theme/?. I found explanations here?https://fullsiteediting.com/lessons/child-themes/?, I added a ‘functions.php’ file to upload child theme css, and it works !

I can confirm what Mathilde Rivoire said, it works. Thanks Mathilde.

To be exact, you need to create a functions.php in your child theme directory and paste this php in it (after having created the child theme with the plugin ‘Create Block Theme’):

<?php
function fse_child_styles() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'fse-child-style', get_stylesheet_uri() );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'fse_child_styles' );
?>
//End

Hi @mathilde-rivoire ,
unfortunately, the whole does not work for me. When I install and activate the newly generated child theme (ZIP files) on the same WP insatllation I don’t see the changes I already made.
Where am I making a mistake. Could not solve the problem even via functions.php in the child theme!
Thanks for helping me out!

Regards Martina

Hi @markeck ,

Would you please start your own thread?

Let’s help the forum stay “clean” as per the forum guidelines.

Have a nice day!

Hi Mohsin

actually this is the same problem for everyone so it is useful to see other users solutions, rather than having to find all threads related to this very same problem

so i have the same problem as others, best would be to provide a child theme to everyone ?