I made a child OK but what if I need to edit something besides style,css?

Still not working I tried without the bracket and then again with ?>

Still get the “INTERNAL SERVER ERROR” it strange too because if I hit the back button to go back to editor and take the code out that crashed it and save it still says “INTERNAL SERVER ERROR” the only way I fix it is to use filezilla and strip it out and save???

It’s not doing anything strange at the moment, you have a syntax error in your code caused by an unnecessary extra closing bracket (}) – And if you take away all of your code in the functions.php file then it will also crash because PHP files need to at least have the code <?php ?>.

Do you have access to your site’s error logs? You will be more informed than just a 500 error.

Yes I ran the code through https://phpcodechecker.com/ and saw the extra bracket and removed it before trying it again.

Where would my site error logs be? at my host?

Yes, your hosting providers can guide you to where it is.

My host iPage directed me to the error log but it says: Your CGI error log is currently empty.

I’ll have to mess with this more later I have to go somewhere now, thanks for your help!

Hi Andrew, I fixed the code and got it working, it was the second to last curly bracket that needed to be removed.

I got it working (not erroring out) but it was funky. The purpose of it was to turn my posts into excerpts and it created a “read more” button but when clicking on it it would just reload the excerpt. Plus it would end the excerpt in the middle of a word.

So I deleted the code. I am surprised that 2014 theme does not come already with the option to do excerpts. I will keep looking for a solution. I know I can get a plugin that kinda does what I want but I would rather code it. Let me know if you have any recommendations and thanks for you help, you taught me some things.

I need some more clarification about the functions.php file in my child. I was told to use the following code:

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

}

Whenever I add anything below this I get an error. For example I am trying to add a slider and it tells me to add this code to my functions file:

`<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[carousel-horizontal-posts-content-slider]’); ?>

When I do I get an error. I know very little about php but isn’t the functions file supposed to have a closing tag like ?>