I have a child theme setup in wordpress and the style.css and functions.php in the child theme are working correctly. I now want to overwrite other template .php files with the versions in the child theme. I can't seem to make these files overwrite the parent theme however.
child theme functions.php:
<?php
//enqueue styles
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles', 'overwrite' );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
//overwrite template pages
function overwrite() {
wp_enqueue_script( get_template_directory_uri() . '/inc/structure/hooks.php' );
wp_enqueue_script( get_template_directory_uri() . '/inc/structure/header.php' );
}
I have a hooks.php and header.php in /child-theme/inc/structure/
For a child-theme you do not need to enqueue any template (PHP) files, simply add a PHP file to your child-theme with exactly the same name and path as the one you are trying to overwrite in your parent theme and it will naturally replace it.
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I have been trying to fix this for two days, looking at the different answers on here.
Whenever I edit css in the 'Additional CSS' editor in WP, I get the desired results. However, I can't seem to do this from the style.css sheet. Not that I need to do it from there, but it indicates to me that my child theme is not set up properly.
My style.css file:
/*
Theme Name: Coblog-child
Template: coblog
Author: [name]
Description: Coblog Child
Version: 1.1.0.1588784301
Updated: 2020-05-06 16:58:21
*/
my functions.php:
<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_parent_styles' );
function enqueue_parent_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css' );
}
?>
any idea what is wrong within these two?
Thanks
You are only loading the parent-style in your functions.php.
So you do not load the style.css of your child theme.
To make it work, you will have enqueue your child theme's stylesheet as well:
function child_theme_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme-css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/style.css' , array('parent-style'));
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'child_theme_styles' );
For the template directory uri (parent theme)
get_template_directory_uri()
For the child theme directory uri
get_stylesheet_directory_uri()
I'm trying to make my Child Theme Css load after the Parent Theme Css(s) is loaded.
Currently my page isn't displaying correctly because the Parent's bootstrap overrides my child-theme CSS. I cannot simply delete bootstrap from the parent, since any Theme update would include bootstrap again.
Here is my function.php in my Child Theme.
The Activello Theme comes with Bootstrap pre-included (assets/css/bootstrap.min.css)
Is there anything wrong in my PHP ?
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = 'activello';
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/style.css', array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get('Version'));
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );`
Actually my problem is that I already had a functional Child theme with a functions.php and many others filesname.php and also a style.css which work properly, but when I try to add an other stylesheet like for instance modules.min.css The theme is only reading it in the parent folder so I can't change stylesheets in my website and this is annoying
Some data:
File in the parent folder I want to override: \wp-content\themes\startit\assets\css\modules.min.css
File in the child folder I want to be readable: \wp-content\themes\startit-child\assets\css\modules.min.css
I also tryed to put the modules.min.css right here in my child theme next to the styles.css but I can't override the parent folder \wp-content\themes\startit-child\modules.min.css
This is what look like my functions.php :
<?php
function startit_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = 'startit-style'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'startit_enqueue_styles' );
?>
Thank you !
There are couple of ways to do that and the simplest one is:
Remove/Dequeue Parent CSS file
Add/Enqueue new CSS file
function PREFIX_remove_scripts() {
wp_dequeue_style( 'put_modules_file_handler_here' );
wp_deregister_style( 'put_modules_file_handler_here' );
// Now register your child CSS here, using wp_enqueue_style
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'PREFIX_remove_scripts', 20 );
Some Common Confusions
Should you enqueue child styles as well as parent styles? Is it necessary? This is where a lot of confusion exists regarding enqueueing stylesheets in child themes. The answer depends on how the parent styles are included in the parent theme. For example, if the parent theme is using get_stylesheet_uri() to enqueue styles,
for example as in Twenty Sixteen:
wp_enqueue_style('twentysixteen-style', get_stylesheet_uri());
then you don't need to enqueue the child styles. This is because get_stylesheet_uri() returns the URL of the current active theme, which in this case is the child theme.
This is how URLs are returned, when working with child themes
get_stylesheet_uri() = http://example.com/wp-content/themes/example-child/style.css
get_template_directory_uri() = http://example.com/wp-content/themes/example-parent
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() = http://example.com/wp-content/themes/example-child
So, I would recommend you to check your parent functions.php and see, how the style is enqueued so you can handle it properly.
// Add css file or js file
function activate_css() {
wp_enqueue_style('min_style_css', get_template_directory_uri() .'assets/css/modules.min.css'));
));
}
//add css
add_action( 'init','activate_css');
I have a child theme and W3 Total Cache does all the combining and minification of all the parent theme's CSS files, but the style.css file of my child theme remains outside the combined and minified file. This also breaks my styles, because the order of inclusion of the CSS files is broken. This is how I have included the CSS files of the parent theme - I added the following line in my child theme's functions.php:
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
global $wp_styles;
$parent_style = 'parent-style';
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
array( $parent_style )
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
Is there another way of linking the CSS files so that they get properly intercepted by W3 Total Cache?
Try enabling #import handling for child themes.
You also dont need to enqueue the style.css for child theme as its enqueued by default. Instead just enqueue the parent stylesheet.
// Child-theme Functions.php
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
global $wp_styles;
$parent_style = 'parent-style';
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
This is probably easy but I just want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Basically I've been making a bunch of Wordpress sites using child themes and usually the style.css is in the root folder of the theme and I've been using this in my functions.php file
<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
While this file exists in the parent theme I'm using, it's blank and I realized the CSS file being used was a different file name and nested in
\THEME-NAME\framework\css\site\stacks\THEME-CSS.css as opposed to just
THEME-NAME\style.css
So for the child theme do I have to recreate that folder structure and place a same named THEME-CSS.css in the same folder or do I just call it style.css and put it in the child themes root folder like it normally would be? Any other advice would be helpful. Thanks.
To add a stylesheet when in a child theme, these are the two options/behaviors:
// This will point to style.css in child theme
wp_enqueue_style( 'my_child_styles', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/style.css' );
// This will point to style.css in the parent theme
wp_enqueue_style( 'my_parent_styles', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css' );
As you said, when using get_template_directory_uri() the path will always point to the parent theme folder. Use get_stylesheet_directory_uri() to point to the current / child theme folder, if applicable.