Problem Getting Child Theme Functions.php Right

Weird, the parts that were a problem > were fixed when I put them in code here. That’s very odd.

I copied and pasted what generated above and it still does not work. Here’s the contents of the functions.php file as I currently have it. I am using the “Live Preview” to make sure that it works before going further and it still doesn’t.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    $parent_style = 'frontier'; 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'frontier-child',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link' );
function modify_read_more_link() {
return 'Click here to continue reading this article';
}
?>

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by OscarGuy.

Hey guy! What are you trying to do? A child Theme?

Yes.

Please, take a look in your browser inspector and see in the network tab what is the state of the style.css, if there is a style.css with status 404, try to activate another theme and then activate again your child-theme.

So the code above is correct? That’s what I’m trying to verify. I am previewing the changes with the live preview functionality of the themes as I don’t want to activate the child and find the entire site goes down.

I’ve take a look in the Child Theme page of WordPress and at a child theme I’ve created. I think you should put the string “frontier-style” as it says in the comment after the $parent_style variable for the Twenty Fifteen Theme. I let my child-style as it is in the code in the Child Theme WordPress page.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
 
    $parent_style = '<strong>frontier-style</strong>'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by roscfi. Reason: Make it clearly

Here’s how it currently looks (I may have modified it at some point) and I have changed it to show frontier-style where indicated and it still does not appear to work.

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
     $parent_style = 'frontier-style';
     wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'frontier-child',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link' );
function modify_read_more_link() {
return 'Click here to continue reading this article';
}
?>

You’re calling a function twice with the add action.

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

And I think that’s not going to works well.
Try to replace the code you have in your functions.php for:

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
 
    $parent_style = 'frontier-style'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
 
    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

@oscarguy any news?

I apologize for not responding sooner. I have consistently not found any time to work on this. That seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you.

Now I just have to figure out how to get some of other changes I’ve made into my style sheet because apparently, I’ve made some others and I’m not sure where the differences are…that, though, might just take a line-by-line comparison of the base style sheet and the one I later created…