Checking if child theme is set up correctly

Thank you very much for your replies.

Rajan, Now I inserted template in the CSS, but I am still not sure that it is working.

Andrew, That is what I wasn’t sure of, I didn’t understand what I had to change in the style.css
I thought it was correct, but now I added template, is there more that I am missing?

And how would I be able to check if it is working properly?

Thank you

Now my CSS looks like this:

/*Theme Name: DogmaWP child
Theme URI: http://themeforest.net/themes/dogmawp
Description: A Dogma  Creative Responsive Architecture Theme is perfect if you like a clean and modern design. This template is ideal for architects, furniture designers, photographers, and those who need an easy, attractive and effective way to share their work with clients..
Version: 1.1
Author: webRedox WordPress team
Author URI: http://www.webredox.net
Template: dogmawp
License:
License URI:
Tags: two-columns, fluid-layout, custom-background, custom-colors, featured-images, theme-options
*/

.wp-caption{}
.wp-caption-text{}
.sticky{}
.gallery-caption{}
.bypostauthor{}
.alignright{}
.alignleft{}
.aligncenter{}

.alignleft,
img.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.alignright,
img.alignright {
    display: block;
    float: right;
    margin-left: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.aligncenter,
img.aligncenter {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    display: block;
    clear: both;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.screen-reader-text {

}

.screen-reader-text:focus {

}

Ok, now something happened 🙁

It was fine locally, so I tried to upload it to the server so I could share the link with you.
I just uploaded the parent theme and the child theme from my local folder, so I thought it would also work online.

But when I try to activate one of the other themes it gives me this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare dogma_setup() (previously declared in /home/www/wearecrunch.net/newsite/wp-content/themes/dogmawp_child/functions.php:39) in /home/www/wearecrunch.net/newsite/wp-content/themes/dogmawp/functions.php on line 49

It shows up fine locally, but this is happening online 🙁 Have I overlooked something on the online version?

Thank you 🙁

It seems like it is only when there is both Dogmawp and dogmawp_child in the themes folder.
So something is wrong when both folders are there.

But I have no idea what it could be.

Thank you for your reply.

But how do I know what changes have been made to the original functions.php after an update?
It shouldn’t be necessary to copy any code from the original file, as that is the file that should be using the original functions right?
And the child theme would use all new functions that we have modified in the functions.php correct?

So if I change the name of the folder dogmawp to dogmawp_child and copy in a clean brand new origanal dogmawp, then it would only be the child theme that has the modifications right?
Just like it says in the tutorial I linked to before.

So how would I know what has been changes in the original files, that is something that the developers behind the theme has done.

I seemed pretty simple in the tutorial to convert a parent theme into a child theme, and it’s not giving me that error, but I just don’t know if it is working properly.

Thank you.

Oh ok I think I understand now.

So in short.

What I have to do is to find out what is declared in both functions.php and then remove it from dogmawp_child so it will only be declared in dogmawp’s function.php

Is that correct?

Thank you so much for all your help.
I really appreciate it.

If you can confirm that I have understood it correct now, then I will start removing the declarations from the child theme that is already declared in the parent.

Thank you