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As no one could help me with this issue, I persisted, and eventually (after much trawling of the internet) I found a site that showed me how to make a Child theme that would work.

The example in the Woo docs doesn’t work (not for me anyway!)

Because this caused me such a BIG headache, I’m going to post the style.css that works…

Theme Name: Store Front Child Theme
Theme URI: https://www.woocommerce.com/storefront/
Description: Storefront Child Theme
Author: WooThemes
Author URI: https://www.woocommerce.com
Template: storefront
Version: 2.1.8

@import url(“../storefront/style.css”);

(My theme is Woocommerce’s Storefront, if you have a different theme you’d just need to change the names accordingly. You can do this by looking at the parent theme’s .css file, it will tell you the version you’re using, the author name and URI etc.)

I hope this spares others the big headache I’ve experienced!

All the best!

Zoe.

Hi Michael,

thanks for taking the time to reply.

I’ve tried the above code (I added the PHP first to my child theme file), but an error came up and my site was no longer accessible.

The error message said:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?>’

Just to confirm, before I added the above code, my child theme functions file was empty except for the opening and closing tags:

<?php

?>

I hope someone can help me with this, because I’ve spent two days now trying to resolve this issue ??

Just to clairify… when I say that I can’t customise my child-theme, I mean from the front-end (in WordPress once I have uploaded the theme, using the customiser tool.)

Even though the checkboxes for my chosen values are checked, my site doesn’t reflect this.