How to make my theme a "child theme"

  • Resolved famoso

    (@famoso)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi all

    Please don’t laugh at my question as I know it will have a simple answer but I’m still learning.

    How do I get a child them exactly with my customizr them I have now? This is so when there is an update I don’t want to loose my footer text.

    My website is up and running so I don’t want to loose the work I have done on there also.

    Also,

    I’m trying to find out exactly what is the colour orange this theme uses as so I can alter my logo colour to match. Where can I find this code exactly?

    Thank you so much.

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  • Hi there. The orange color used in customizr is #f78c40.
    In fact, you can see the entire orange skin if you look in your theme folder/inc/css. All the skins are listed there, and you can examine them.

    A child theme is a good idea. to create one, you essentially create a new folder, then add a file named “style.css”. In that file, you must include a line within the header comments, specifying the parent template, e.g.: “Template: customizr” . If you need additional functionality, e.g. special page templates, you can add those to the folder as well.

    Here is a really good introduction to Child themes here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes.

    In addition, you might be interested in finding out more about the template heirarchy, here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Hierarchy.

    And if you are thinking of extending your parent theme, you probably should read this too: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter famoso

    (@famoso)

    Hi

    thanks for the reply, it was very helpful but I have one problem, im trying to alter my logo colour using pdf editor and it does not give the option to change to #f78c40 using this format.

    It has…

    Hue: Red:
    Sat: Green:
    Lum: Blue:

    is there a way I can convert #f78c40 to represent the above for my changes?

    Thanks

    Use this site to convert from Hex (#f78c40) to RGB (247,140,64).

    https://www.javascripter.net/faq/hextorgb.htm

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter famoso

    (@famoso)

    Great

    Thank you so much.

    I appreciate your time.

    Ill work on it now.

    Thread Starter famoso

    (@famoso)

    Hi solidgoldextra

    I’m real sorry to be a pain but I have one more quick question.

    I would really like to keep my logo colour.

    Where can I change the orange colour used on the customizr?

    Sorry again

    Thread Starter famoso

    (@famoso)

    thanks for the guidance.

    Hi there. customizr theme allows you to choose different skins. If none of the theme’s skins match your logo, you can edit them. Look in the theme folder (either via ftp, or extract the theme zip file). Find the folder “inc/css”. You will find all the stylesheets for each skin. The orange skin is there as well. You can now edit them as needed.
    Hope this helps/

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