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Hello, Rachna! Thank you for your response.

1. The folder/directory has the – and no spaces.

2. I am not sure about this. Can you explain further, please? How do I check and what am I looking for? I appreciate your patience I am very new to this.

3. I saved via the Save Draft button at the top of my customize screen.

4. Again, How do I find and check?

I had already done the reading at your suggested link. Completed the suggested tasks and did not fix.

Thank you for how thorough and knowledgeable you are! I really appreciate you.

@joy. Thank you for your response. I do save and can see my saved changes but only in customize preview link. I do not want to publish yet, for the very issues I am having.

Please read entire thread. I really need assistance. I appreciate all assistance I have received, however, nothing so far has resolved any of my issues.

Thank you.

And when I go to edit page in dashboard none of my available page templates show up. Nothing to select. Not even the template box. Something is wrong very wrong. I think this issue is bigger. Please do not shut down anymore of my support threads.

Thank you for your assistance.

When I “manage with live preview” it takes me to my customize link where the menu I created is the way I want it. Just does not show on my published pages.

and in the APPEARANCE>MENUS… even when I search my pages do not show up. just the two pages already posted.

And what about changing the available color(s), etc?? where do I do that?

And my sidebar under APPEARANCE>WIDGETS does not show any of my widgests even though I can see them in this menu selection???

ok. So I have to build the menu structure in the APPEARANCE->MENUS and not in the customize link. Again, what is the point of the customize link? That is a terrible choice and very cumbersome instead of using the customize. Even if I assign same name of menu bar it does not import must rebuild without visual. What is the point of the customize link????

Ok can someone please walk me through this:

1. When I create child theme and go into it to customize it pulls from parent theme for functionality and appearance. I make my changes and when I preview within the customization (using provided link) it opens and everything is exactly how I want it. However, when I page preview from WordPress dashboard… nothing that I have done shows.

question: why is my child theme not overriding my parent theme’s styles and functions?

example of the functions.php:
<?php
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘donovan_child_enqueue_styles’ );
function donovan_child_enqueue_styles() {

$parent_style = ‘donovan-style’; // This is ‘donovan-style’ for the Donovan theme.

wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’ );
wp_enqueue_style( ‘donovan-child-style’ ,
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’,
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get(‘1.0’)
);
}
?>

2. when I change my menu in the child theme customize screen why is that not being loaded?

Could someone please walk me through the child theme process setup and explain what I am doing wrong? I have followed every step of the codex to do this with both the style.css and functions.php.

What is the point of using the child theme customize if it doesn’t load any of the saved portions?? Where do those saved changes go?? How do I get them to override the parent??

Please dumb it down for me. I am very new at this. Please do not send screenshots of my code without explanation of where to find that code and how to fix it. I appreciate your patience.

I have deleted the original child theme and did a dummy twentyseventeen child just for example as it is doing same thing.

What EXACTLY do I need to do to set up child theme so that I can customize in customize link and have it look like I want to override the parent theme??

Even the customize options available without requiring code.

so again… In my child theme I created my main menu. Saved it. In the customize link. When I publish pages the menu is not there. Do I need to manually put the menu code in the functions.php in my child theme for changes to stick. If I update child theme in customize from wordpress dashboard the changes do not show. Basically, as it sits now my customize is useless to me. Nothing changes.

So what you are telling me is….

Don’t use the customize link with your child theme activated and save as it does nothing.
To include the functions when you make your menu, etc. Everything must be manually input into the functions.php and style.css. Again, what is the point of the customize link in your child theme? I thought WordPress was created to make things easier.

So even if I purchase the premium theme(s) that are somewhat customizable… I still need to put everything that the premium does not do – manually in the child theme’s functions.php and style.css, as it is recommended to always use a child theme so that it is not affected by updates?? And not use the customize link at all.

thank you for your assistance

I have come back to this topic, per your request, Mr. Stern.

What is the point of using the child theme customize if it doesn’t load any of the saved portions?? Where do those saved changes go?? How do I get them to override the parent??

Every bit of code I put in was taken from the wordpress codex instructions. I even copied and pasted only substituting child and parent theme names. You are telling me not to do this. Please explain further answering the questions I have asked.

thanks for your assistance

And I literally copied and pasted the code string directly from wordpress codex only inserting my child theme and parent theme. After many frustrating tries.

Also, can you please explain when I customize my child theme and save where do those files go??

Thank you for your assistance.

style.css:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Seventeen Child
Description: My twenty seventeen child theme
Author: Kristina Hittner
Version: 1.0
Template: twentyseventeen
*/