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no, how would i do that?

not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if i should have started another thread, but anyway.
so i made a child theme, its working fine, but i’m having an issue. the original theme had had some colour scheme css files that you couldn’t access through the dashboard editor, so I was using ftp to change them. i put those files in my child theme, presuming they’d control the colour schemes for the child. however, they don’t. I was going to see whether changing the file for the parent would work, but the directory has vanished. the child theme works just fine, and wordpress says I have the theme installed, but there is no directory for it.

tbh i’d be happy if you could tell me how to link the colour scheme files to the child theme, but if anyone knows whats going on with the directory that would be smashing as well.
https://blog.getseenings.co.uk/ is the site, i was trying to change the little blue bar in the footer, and the image source was in blue.css

thanks man, massive help ??

ah.
so my best course of action is to create a child theme without any of the files i definitely haven’t changed, and just deal with any updates as and when they happen?

But if i change them in the parent theme, and it updates, bad stuff happens? idk anything about this, sorry

so how can I break up the files? I’m assuming its more complicated that cutting and pasting?
I’ve not come across hooks yet, how would i use them?

oops, i’ve made a few changes, nothing major, like removing page titles from pages and putting an RSS button in the sidebar, (i can’t work out how to do anything more complex)but this means I should be able to do them again pretty quickly in the event of an update. I’ll be sure to keep backed up files just in case.
Also, is there anything generic i should avoid putting in the child theme apart from functions.php, or are these things theme specific?

sorry but im a complete newbie, haven’t been using wordpress a full week, not sure i 100% understand what youre saying.
if i made a child theme, but left out the functions.php would that save all my changes from updates and not cause that same error to happen? and if i did this should i still change register_scripts() to themename_register_scripts()?

if you want to replace your rss with a social bookmark button replace this bit:
<a class="rss" rel="nofollow" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Subscribe to RSS Updates</a>

with this:
`<img src=”imagelocation”/>

just find the stylesheet & upload it?

not off the top of my head, no. shouldn’t be too hard to find though.
is it just widgets specific to the theme that don’t work or all widgets?

replaced the functions.php file and everythings working now.
still just want to know how to set up a theme option

ok tried to change it back but all pages display this now –
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /homepages/23/d236124545/htdocs/wp-content/themes/belle/functions.php on line 97

not sure what you mean by the first bit, but theres definitely a plugin for having different widgets on different pages

kl, reckon ill have a look