Responsive Boat Child Theme

  • Resolved wcmaster

    (@wcmaster)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    How do you make a responsiveboat child theme? I’m getting the following error:

    The “responsiveboat” theme is not a valid parent theme.

    I’m not a stranger in making child themes. Then again, I may be doing something simple and stupid. This responsiveboat child theme has me stumped. I believe it is because responsiveboat is not a traditional WP theme — responsiveboat is already a child theme of zerif-lite.

    Here are the style.css headers for my child style.css and responsiveboat’s style.css (respectively):

    === My Child style.css ===

    /*
 Theme Name:     ResponsiveBoat Child
 Theme URI:      https://www.ads-software.com/themes/responsiveboat/
 Description:    ResponsiveBoat Child Theme; Zerif Lite Child Theme
 Author:         CWM Webmaster
 Author URI:     https://www.ads-software.com/themes/responsiveboat/
 Template:       responsiveboat
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

/* =Imports styles from the parent theme
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
@import url('/wp-content/themes/responsiveboat/style.css');

    === responsiveboat style.css ===

    /*
Theme Name:   ResponsiveBoat
Description:  ResponsiveBoat is a free responsive WordPress theme, with a friendly and colorful design. It comes with a full-screen layout, a full-width homepage header, elegant parallax effect, and nice animations. It can be used web agencies, digital studios, corporate, product showcase, personal and business portfolio. Overall, ResponsiveBoat looks very modern and interactive.
Author:       Themeisle
Author URI:   https://themeisle.com
Template:     zerif-lite
Version:      1.0.8
License:      GNU General Public License version 2
License URI:  license.txt
Text Domain:  responsiveboat
Tags:         black, gray, red, white, one-column, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, custom-background, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready
*/
[standard CSS code follows; no css import of zerif-lite]

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  • Thread Starter wcmaster

    (@wcmaster)

    Never mind. You canNOT make a child theme of an existing child theme.

    Vivian Kuhn

    (@vivian-chen-jun)

    If we can’t make a child theme of this theme, how can we customize it? What if the theme is updated, then our modifications may be lost?

    Hi Vivian,

    As said before, ResponsiveBoat is a child theme of Zerif Lite, so you can’t create a child theme from it.
    If you want to customize Zerif Lite, you can create your own child theme and customize it.

    Best regards,
    Rodica

    Vivian Kuhn

    (@vivian-chen-jun)

    hi Rodica, thanks for your answer. but the thing is that I want to use ResponsiveBoat theme and I already customised it a bit, now I’m afraid the Responsiveboat theme will be updated in future and wipe out all my modifications. Can I assume Responsiveboat theme will never be updated in future since it’s already a child theme? thanks.

    Hi Vivian,

    ResponsiveBoat will be updated in the future if issues are encountered. As a matter of fact we just sent a new update fixing some problems.
    If you want to have your own child theme of Zerif Lite, that looks like ResponsiveBoat, with some customizations from you, you could just create a new child theme starting from ResponsiveBoat.
    You would need to change the name of the theme (Theme Name in style.css) and the folder of the theme.

    Best regards,
    Rodica

    Thread Starter wcmaster

    (@wcmaster)

    If you want to have your own child theme of Zerif Lite, that looks like ResponsiveBoat, with some customizations from you, you could just create a new child theme starting from ResponsiveBoat. You would need to change the name of the theme (Theme Name in style.css) and the folder of the theme.

    Agree, Rodica. That’s what I did with this website. It is also good to keep a log of all the changes you make in case something “hinky” happens.

    Good luck, Vivian. If you wanna do the same, then you just need to follow what Rodica said in her previous post.

    Hi I am having the same problem but it is not working. I created a new folder for responsiveboatchild, then created a style sheet like this:
    /*
    Theme Name: responsiveboatchild
    Theme URI: https://www.themeisle.com/
    Description: This is a custom child theme I have created.
    Author: Chuck Norris
    Author URI: https://www.themeisle.com/
    Template: zerif-lite
    Version: 0.1
    */
    @import url(“../responsiveboat/style.css”);

    and it does not work. Anybody know what is missing?

    ok, i got it. just had to copy all files from responsiveboat into my child theme minus the new style sheet i created.

    Hi,
    I′m having a problem with the childtheme of responsiveboat als well.

    @admintango:
    Unfortunately your solution didn′t work out.
    I tried both varieties of the enque-solution (https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/163301/versioning-import-of-parent-themes-style-css) but it won′t work properly.

    I can see the childtheme in the theme-categories in my wp-backend but the frontend won′t display the theme at all and do endless loading instead.

    I′m wondering if it′s got anything to do with the pro-version of the zerif-theme?
    Maybe my free-version of responsiveboat can only create a second child-theme by referring to the pro-version?

    Best regards,
    gesini

    @gesini, hmm did you create your child theme locally using MAMP, WAMP or XAMPP then zip it and upload that version to the remote WordPress or your host using WordPress? I got the bulk of it running on my local machine, then zipped it and uploaded it, then added content and images to the remote site. That is really all I did and I have had no issues to date. I never used the pro version, only zerif-lite.

    @admintango

    Thanx for your quick answer.
    Your solution sounds quite easy but I′m wondering if you′ve created a real childtheme?
    It might seem to work because you created a replica instead of a childtheme.
    Did you have to deal with any updates since then?

    Best regards,
    gesini

    @gesini

    Great question and I was just over at themeisle and saw your post and was wondering where I saw your name and thought to myself, didn’t I reply to this person before?:)

    Anyways, so about the update thing. I was wondering the same thing when I did it if it would handle an update and just last week an update was ready for ResponsiveBoat and when I updated it, it worked with no issues at least that I noticed. It may very well be a replica, that would make sense since according to WordPress(or Themeilse, don’t recall) that we can not create a child theme from a child theme. At least I can still customize it to my liking by using my files and it still successfully updates. Hope this helps.

    xifis

    (@xifis)

    Hi,

    What if I customized both zerif lite and responsiveboat theme and I don’t want to loose the changes that I’ve made with any update ?

    Do I have to create a child theme for both themes ? How can I do that ?

    I’m working localy and using wamp for the moment. I can’t remember all the files that I changed so far… I also changed the bootstrap.css and some .php files in the zerif lite folder ^^

    I’m new to wordpress and I’ve never created a child-theme yet. :/

    Anyone could help me ?

    All the best,

    Xifis

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