Seventeen Child Theme

Can you link to a copy of your theme? Either a place where someone can test a ZIP of it or a GitHub repository?

If you literally take the stock twenty seventeen theme and create a simple child theme for it as in the instructions (it supposedly only required those 2 files), hopefully you can validate what I’m seeing. If you say that the child theme looks like the parent theme on your end, then I’ll know something about my installation isn’t right, maybe a conflict with some plug in, I don’t know. It’s a very basic site for my portfolio.

Please show your functions.php from the child theme. Then you could quickly see what might be wrong. You can show the source code here in the code block: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum-user-guide/block-editor/#code-block

If you literally take the stock twenty seventeen theme and create a simple child theme for it as in the instructions (it supposedly only required those 2 files), hopefully you can validate what I’m seeing. If you say that the child theme looks like the parent theme on your end, then I’ll know something about my installation isn’t right, maybe a conflict with some plug in, I don’t know. It’s a very basic site for my portfolio.

I’m the person who wrote the instructions on the linked documentation page and can confirm that everything works as expected for me.

That’s why I’d like to see a copy of your child theme. Maybe there’s something missing or an error. Maybe I overlooked something in the documentation that should be added/corrected. Or any number of things.

I created the folder “twentyseventeen-child”. I added the style.css as:
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Seventeen Child
Theme URI: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentytwentyone/
Description: Twenty Seventeen child theme
Author: www.ads-software.com
Author URI: https://www.ads-software.com/
Template: twentyseventeen
Version: 1.0.0
Text Domain: twentyseventeenchild
*/

And then I created functions.php in the same folder with:

<?php 
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'twentyseventeen_enqueue_styles' );

function twentyseventeen_enqueue_styles() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 
		'twentyseventeen-parent-style', 
		get_parent_theme_file_uri( 'style.css' )
	);
}
?>

Thanks for you help. Even if the style sheet part didn’t work, I don’t now why the child theme is not picking up the page-blah.php templates from the parent’s folder. My WP installation resides in its own /index/ folder in my site root, if that matters.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by wpusercan.

It’s now working! Not sure why it wasn’t before.