What theme are you using? Can you post a link to your site with the child theme active? If your theme had an option to change the background image, that change may not have carried over to the child theme, in which case you’ll have to set the background image again for the child theme, just as you did when you were using the parent theme.
Thanks for the reply! I thought about reconstructing (in the child theme) what didn’t come through when switching over to it (like the background image), but thought it to be more of a workaround than actually finding the problem and, thereby, learning from it. However, I am certainly willing to do that if it means I can go on and do my learning exercises.
Jan Dembowski writes: “Please do not post links to your site looking for feedback in these forums.” so I didn’t. That limits your ability to get help. Are we to rely on our own emails? Can’t someone obtain emails by ruse? Is the security onus now on all of us? ..just asking. DL
You can post a link to your site if you’re asking for help. What Jan meant is that you shouldn’t post a link to a completed site asking for critique on layout, colors, fonts, SEO, etc. There used to be a forum here specifically for that purpose, but it attracted so much spam and required so much attention that the mods decided to give it the axe.
Awesome, Stephen! Thanks for that info. Y’know it’s a real journey, this web stuff. I’m reading The WordPress Anthology from SitePoint. I’m actually GETTING this stuff – slow but sure – LOTS of reading and (dare I say) CODE..!
Anyway, my site is wizbangkid.com. Have a look and let me know what you need.
Thanks, DL
I just caught your previous reply. I’ll go now and activate child theme.
Oh, I forgot. The theme is Sempress.
I made it and left it for months. Medical reasons. I didn’t see the background image in the parent comtomize interface either. I think I’ll re-do it now.
Your theme has built-in options to change the background and the text color, and they don’t carry over from the parent theme to the child theme. You’ll have to set them again for your child theme, just like you did when you were using the parent theme.
Edit: I just saw your most recent post. You can set the background image by going to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Background Image, and you can change the colors by going to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Colors.
I need to copy some settings over.
Well, I think it looks ok. What do you think? You gave me the push I needed. I went that direction in my thinking, but I first I wanted to find out WHY everything didn’t show up in the child. I’m using this site as I read into the “guts” of WordPress. Inquiring minds want to know… :-))
