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@dtynan Okay, no problem. Thanks for checking it out. I will do some digging and see what I find.

Given that this thread is 12 months old, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is no easy way to create a child theme for Zerif Lite. The best-practice WordPress method doesn’t work, and everyone who has tried has encountered some issue.

If anyone from the Zerif Lite team is listening, jump in any time.

Crap, yep you are right. I activated the parent theme and it was fine. I managed to track down the issue but I don’t know how to fix it. I have this code in my functions.php file which seems to be causing the problem:

add_action( 'loop_start', 'wordpress_seo_plugins_breadcrumbs' );
function wordpress_seo_plugins_breadcrumbs() {
if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
	yoast_breadcrumb('<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>');
	}
}

Hi Hardeep, thanks for getting back to me,

Nope, no editing of theme files. I have a child theme that I use for edits, but the main theme is untouched.

Thank you.

Disregard. Plugin clash.

Hi team, I managed to fall over some kind of solution. All of the manual child theme procedures I followed didn’t work. They either didn’t bring the customiser content with them and/or the functionality and styles were broken/lost/afraid.

I ended up using this plugin – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/child-theme-configurator/. During setup it asks how to “connect” the CSS files and the one that worked best for me was the @import option (I’m aware that this is no longer the best way but it was the only one that worked for me).

Hope that helps. If anyone has had any luck creating a child theme for zerif lite that works via a different method, please let me know.

Hi team,

I had another crack at the child theme. I tried the @import method and the functions.php method. Both methods failed. The site works okay using the child theme but the layouts are completely messed up.

I created a blank CSS sheet and added my customizations to it. It looks completely different then when I had the custom css added to the parent style sheet.

I’m not suggesting it’s the themes fault mind you, I am a weapon at breaking things. Just after some advice.

Thanks all.

Hi all, thanks for the responses.

WPyogi, if the @import method is no longer best practice, what do you suggest myself or Pascalvd could do to get Zerif Lite Child functionality working? This was the issue I encountered too. I didn’t try the @import method, but consequently had various styles and functions missing as well.

Sweet. Thanks for that. Much appreciated.

Righto, no problem. Thanks for the response.