Child theme

It seems I have stumbled across the solution to the footer issue, though I am not knowledgable enough about WordPress to understand. But by deleting the footer link to the Archive in the index.php file, and replacing it with a simple get_template_part( 'footer' ) I get what I want.

But that only opens up another question, because the footer file that you have set up contains the code <?php get_sidebar( 'main' ); ?> with the note “Grabs the Main sidebar widget  – whatever you have added in the “widgets” area will display here.” and that gives me a search box, and a bunch of other links.

I’m sorry but I don’t understand this at all as there are no widgets and I certainly haven’t consciously added anything.

You have clearly done some very clever and efficient coding in this theme, with a number of features that are not immediately apparent. I’m hoping you might be able to explain to very amateur coder what is going on here please.

Thanks.

I have another issue which I don’t seem to be able to resolve. It is simply the setting of 640px for the featured image.

I want to use 720 px because all my existing graphics are that width, so I have made appropriate changes in the child theme functions.php and style.php, but while the body width and the width of images within the post change, nothing makes any difference to the featured image.

Can you tell me, please, how the 640 setting is made?

Thanks.

Thanks for your reply. But “640” only appears twice in your functions.php file, to set image size, and I altered that in the child theme to 720. But still the featured image was 640 px wide. I can’t understand how it could come out at 640px when I had replaced all references to 640 in the main theme.

No I haven’t yet. My latest question was trying to understand rather than just follow instructions. But I do appreciate your advice, and will be doing it.

(I have been trailling Arke on a dummy site, but when I set it up on my actual site I will then regenrate thumbnails if necessary. Thanks.)