Title: Child Theme Not Functioning Correctly
Last modified: March 22, 2020

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# Child Theme Not Functioning Correctly

 *  [homemadejam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/homemadejam/)
 * (@homemadejam)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-functioning-correctly/)
 * I have created a child theme of TheSimplest using the method outlined in the 
   WordPress Codex.
 * Unfortunately, it does reproduce the site correctly. All the fonts are displaying
   much smaller.
 * I duplicated and added the Includes Folder. That didn’t help. Added the Assets
   folder as well. Still all small text.
 * Any advice would be appreciated.

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 *  [almcr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/almcr/)
 * (@almcr)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-functioning-correctly/#post-12890082)
 * I had a similar problem when trying to create a child theme of ‘Blog Guten’, 
   this is a theme on the wordpress.org repository which also enqueues files like
   bootstrap before it enqueues the style sheet for the theme and child theme. Take
   a look at the support forum for ‘Blog Guten’, I outline there what needs to be
   done to get around this problem. Maybe not the best solution but one which I 
   came up with to use a child theme for ‘Blog Guten’. I am in the process of trying
   to set up a working child theme for ‘thesimplest’, maybe I need to implement 
   the same solution.
 * Al
 *  [almcr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/almcr/)
 * (@almcr)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-functioning-correctly/#post-12894445)
 * another way that seems to work:
 * add this to the theme’s functions.php
 * `
    if ( is_child_theme() ) { wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', trailingslashit(
   get_template_directory_uri() ) . 'style.css' ); } wp_enqueue_style( 'thesimplest-
   style', get_stylesheet_uri() );
 * I know this involves changing the code in a theme if it is updated, but it ia
   a simpler method of enqueueing the stylesheet for a child theme.
 * Al

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 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-functioning-correctly/#post-12894445)
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