Problems with modifying child theme
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Hi guys,
At work we’re redoing our intranet and we chose Twenty Seventeen.
I have created a child theme following the instructions at https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ – so far so good. But some of the modifications that I made aren’t executing.
(1) I have a
<ul>with some links. For some reason, even tho the style.css has notext-decoration: underline;the links are still underlined. I have used the Inspect Element tool of my browser and changed the color of the links, and addedtext-decoration: none !important;but there is a line coming from somewhere, just can’t find where. I’m using the theme’s original style.css only modifying some things here and there.(2) I want to change some texts in some PHP files (translate from English into Danish without using any plugin). I have copied pasted those files in the child theme’s folder in the same paths as the parent theme, but for some reason if I don’t change those same lines on the parent theme, the changes don’t happen. An example is on index.php, the following line:
<h2 class="page-title"><?php _e( 'Posts', 'twentyseventeen' ); ?></h2>Instead of “Posts” I have another word.
The same issue happens with the files:
- inc > template-tags.php
- template-parts > page > content-front-page.php
- template-parts > post > content.php
How do I solve these issues?
Thanks in advance.
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The only file that is not reacting to changing that one word is template-tags.php
That’s not a template file and so it doesn’t follow the same rules as templates for modifying it: https://themes.svn.www.ads-software.com/twentyseventeen/1.4/inc/template-tags.php
To override a function in there you can sometimes copy the function, paste it into your Child Theme functions.php file and modify it there. But you need to tell us specifically what you want changed and we can advise on that.
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