PHP code appearing at top of page when using child theme

  • Resolved stephunique

    (@stephunique)


    5 months, 1 week ago

    Hello,

    I am not a developer, however I followed instructions on creating a child theme manually (since creating it with a plugin failed completely). This involved making a style.css file and a functions.php file. The problem is, whatever I put in the php file, shows up on the front end at the top of the pages on my site.

    If it helps at all: The themes I tried to create a child theme for are BuddyX and Listing Hive and the Multi Themes plugin and have BuddyX activated but used the plugin to set some pages to the Listing Hive theme. At first I used the instructions on this page to create my child themes: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-wordpress-child-theme-video/ and the code appears on every page. Then I used the code on this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27566882/child-theme-enqueuing-with-dependencies and the code only appears on the Listing Hive theme pages.

    Edit:

    The WPBeginner one did not work at all and appeared all the time on the front. The second php code worked but I didn’t copy it right ]to the Listing Hive Child theme, after I corrected this, the code disappeared from the front end.

    However I’ll keep this thread open in case someone has anything to add about why the code appears on the front end.

    • This topic was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by stephunique. Reason: Add more detail
    • This topic was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by stephunique. Reason: Add more detail
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  • If this is failing for multiple themes from independent developers, then the obvious conclusion is you must be doing something wrong… and the problem is not with the themes or even WordPress.

    Unfortunately, without seeing your child theme’s code or even the site in question, it’s impossible for anyone to tell you what you may be doing wrong.

    See how to properly post code samples here in the forums so they don’t get mangled by the forum software: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum-user-guide/faq/#how-do-i-post-code-examples

    Thread Starter stephunique

    (@stephunique)

    Hi George,

    I can’t say what I am doing wrong, but I just copied the PHP code as provided in the two links above so I thought there is no need to post it here too. I guess since it is resolved for me so far (not done testing yet), my issue is resolved.

    Thank you for directing me to info on how to paste code, though.

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