merkathi

Dear @fotis,

Thank you very much for your reply. That really helped! As long as it is just a simple link, it’s just fine. And I will definitely not integrate an additional like button.

Of course, I did that already. Well deserved!

For some not apparent reason, Photoshop saved the file as .png but didn’t put a file ending behind it. Now it works!

Now that it is all solved, I’d like to thank you for your amazing support. That was very much appreciated! ??

Wow, it worked like magic – thank you so much for your amazing support, @anastis. I appreciate this very much!

There’s just one thing left: I tried to add a screenshot to the child theme so it would have a preview picture for the WordPress backend. The size is 600×450 and is named screenshot.png, it’s uploaded to the child theme folder (as was described in an instruction). But it won’t show in the WP backend. Anything I could have messed with?

Hallo @anastis,

Thank you very much again for your support!
I’ve tried the whole thing and so far it wasn’t too bad, I think. I just did a preview of the child theme and the main changes (colours, underlining) seem to work.
What I don’t understand is, that e.g. my header/banner vanished and was replaced my the Olsen header. The footer is back, even though I deactivated it. And some changes I made in the top menu (order – with the help of a plugin, deactivating a few pages etc.) aren’t valid anymore. Also, the related posts (Jetpack function) don’t show up.

How can I solve these problems?

Kathrin

@anastis: Thank you so much for your help, that’s amazing!

I’m aware of the main function of the main functions of a child theme (or at least I’ve got a good idea ?? ). What I am wondering is, if I just have too many alterations in the parent theme that I have to transfer to the child theme, that the child theme will take too long to override the parent theme while loading the page so that in the end a visitor might see bits and pieces of the parent theme for a brief moment – which I of course would like to avoid (no offence there ?? I love the Olsen theme for its great aesthetics re shapes etc. – it’s just that I’m planning a blog for kids apps and black doesn’t seem that appropriate for it ?? ).
I might have time to work on a proper child theme tomorrow and will see with how much css of the parent code I will end up. Yeah!

I see the general blessing and curse thing, though I don’t care much about the style. Safety updates bother me much more than a font color. Are there many updates per year? Because that would mean that with every theme update I will have to go through the original CSS and the child css to search for differences re safety changes.

Thanks for the help with the functions code. I also found an alternative for using functions.php without de-registering the style.css first.

Wish me luck!

Hi,

and thank you very much for your help!

@fotis: In this article, I’m missing the information how work with the changes I already made in my original CSS Style. When I copy the whole CSS into the child theme CSS it I think loading and comparing both will definitely take longer than just comparing the changes.

@anastis: Oh yes, this definitely helps, thank you! I haven’t tried it yet but that sounds like something I was looking for. I could also go trough the CSS and search for the color codes (e.g. I replaced all black graphics with mint, got rid of the yellowish mouseover etc.). So when I search for the color codes I find this color up to 20 times in my CSS… So this Diffnow-thing sounds like a plan.
Are there easier ways to change color instead of doing it in so many places in the CSS?

Just another thing that came up: In one of the child theme instructions I read I was told that some themes are using more than one CSS and therefore I’d need a different code for the functions.php to de-register and re-register CSS files in the parent theme. Is Olsen Light a theme of this kind?

Cheers
Kathrin