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Orbisius,

Thanks for participating in this. FYI, when I used your plug-in to create a child theme and then activated it, the entire site went white (fatal error). This happened even after I tested with a Sandbox site. My web hosting company’s tech support resolved it for me. I have since figured out how to do a manual child theme.

Thank you for the help above, WPYogi and Orbisius. Sorry to bother you, Siobhan. You looked to be so helpful to someone with a similar problem. I didn’t think it would hurt to reach out. Like many people that post here, I am learning not only about web development, but the social dynamics of this community.

Why can’t you just edit the code in the parent theme? I did a child theme with a plug-in and when I activated it, it had fatal errors. I am now restored to the status quo ante, thankfully.

So to do my own child theme, can I copy the code from the Editor field in Dashboard, paste it into a Notepad file, make the changes I want, and then upload it through FTP? Is it that straightforward?

Is there any danger of Orbisius crashing a site based on Spun? It looks user-friendly and I would like to proceed, but he provides quite the warning. By checking the CopyFunction.php box that he provides, am I safe? Forgive me being over-cautious here. I have had a tendency in the past to make things worse while trying to make them better! ??

Thanks. Good to know. I ran into problems with the first link’s instructions. When I put my website’s url followed by wp-content/themes, I got a blank webpage. That’s what led me to think I had to do it on my hard drive. I’ll have a look at that second link now and let you know how it goes.

ok

OK, I just figured out that I probably need to download WP to my hard drive to create a child theme…I built the site and chose the theme entirely on the web. Is my hunch correct?

Hello,

I read this thread with great interest because I just built a site with Spun and I, too, want to change the opacity value. However, when I try to access my theme directory to create a child theme, I get a blank screen. No error message, mind you — just a blank page. I am entering https://us-iran-relations.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ The instructions seemed straight-forward enough. Alas…could someone involved in this thread please help me get started? Thank you!