Title: child theme admin appearance problem
Last modified: October 28, 2016

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# child theme admin appearance problem

 *  [Padaben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/padaben/)
 * (@padaben)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/)
 * Hi folks,
    I use this kelly theme, nice ! I did make a child theme as needed.
   When I do activate the child theme, the menu appearance in the admin lost some
   sub menus ! I only have : theme, personalize and editor ! not seeing the menu,
   header, background sub menu links like in the kelly parent menu !
 * any idea what’s the problem ?
 * thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Padaben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/padaben/)
 * (@padaben)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/#post-8368132)
 * I do not have widget either !
    any idea ?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/#post-8377639)
 * Could you provide a link to your site?
 * Could you paste the complete content of your functions.php file into a [Pastebin](http://pastebin.com/)
   and provide a link here so I can take a look? Choose PHP syntax highlighting.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Padaben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/padaben/)
 * (@padaben)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/#post-8543224)
 * Hi Kathryn,
    the website is not online. wamp developpment. I still have the problem!
   dunno why ! The functions.php is large ! Lots of includes I tryed disabling all
   without success ! What should I look for ? thanks
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/#post-8548806)
 * It’s not possible for me to tell what’s wrong without seeing either your site
   or the file. 🙂
 * If you don’t want to put the contents of functions.php in a Pastebin, feel free
   to upload the file somewhere so I can download it and have a look.
 * Functions.php shouldn’t be that large. Did you by any chance copy the entire 
   functions.php from your parent into the child theme folder? If so, that’s probably
   causing issues. Only the stylesheet enqueuing function and any **changes** you
   want to make in your child should go into the child’s functions.php, **not** 
   the entire contents of the parent’s file.
 * I’d be glad to have a look directly, but you’ll need to either copy the contents
   of your child’s functions.php into a Pastebin as I mentioned earlier, or upload
   it somewhere else where I can view it.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-admin-appearance-problem/#post-8548806)
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