Use child theme without activating parent

  • Hello guys,

    I want to network activate a child theme but keep the parent theme deactivated.

    The problem is that if I only activate the child, it doesn’t get the stylesheet from the parent theme, since it’s deactivated. In order to work I have to activate both, activate parent theme on a per-site basis, activate the child theme on a per-site basis and finally deactivate the parent theme.

    I guess that for new blogs that wouldn’t be a problem since I could just activate it on the default blog thus adding the necessary tables to new blogs, but for existing ones I’ve not been able to find a workaround.

    Any ideas?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I want to network activate a child theme but keep the parent theme deactivated.

    No, that’s not correct. I just tried it with Scrappy. I uploaded the two directories themes/scrappy and themes/scrappy-child and only Network Activated the child theme.

    The site I did this on works fine and the parent theme is not network activated and doesn’t show up. It also worked with Twenty Eleven in the past.

    Which theme are using? Maybe it’s a theme issue?

    The problem is that if I only activate the child, it doesn’t get the stylesheet from the parent theme, since it’s deactivated. In order to work I have to activate both, activate parent theme on a per-site basis, activate the child theme on a per-site basis and finally deactivate the parent theme.

    That is not normal behaviour. Talk to the theme authors please.

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