Question on Child Themes

  • My themes creator has also created a child theme (twenty ten- buddy press). I have the child theme installed but not currently active. I have read articles on child thems and just not quite grasping it. To date I have gotten around a child theme by just keeping backups of my style css, etc, in the event of updates, then re-pasting the changes.

    I would like to make a three column format, (and think for creating a 3 column format I need to do so on a child theme). I have activated the theme to take a peek at it, just looks very raw, menus all messed up, etc… then went back to the parent. I guess my question is. To make changes in the child theme, what else has to be done? Do I need to ftp this into my wp directory? Do I activiate the child theme and work from there then it automatically goes into my parent theme, then go back to the parent theme?Sorry, this whole things has be confused.Just don’t understand how one goes to the other, Thanks for any help.

    Thank you

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  • The only links between a child theme and its parent are in the child’s style.css file on the Template line and the include of the parent style.css.

    The way a child theme works is a very simple concept: When the WP core starts to look for something in the current theme, it looks first in the active (child) folder. If it is not found there, it looks in the parent folder. There are a few exceptions to this, like the functions.php file which is loaded from both folders.

    Here is a tutorial recommended in the Codex.

    So, if you put a file named index.php in your child folder, it will be used instead of the parent index.php. You can make changes to the child index.php and it will not be replaced if you do an upgrade of the parent theme.

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