Child theme not using content?

  • westonjeff

    (@westonjeff)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    My son started a site using Simple, adding images and content in the Frontpage Featured, About, Testimonial, etc. sections. I suggested he create a child theme to avoid problems when Simple gets updated.

    After creating child theme using One-Click Child Theme plugin, images and content added to site do not appear. Instead, child theme uses original content included with theme.

    What’s needed to create a child theme of Simple that will use content already added?

    Thanks in advance for help or advice.

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  • Theme Author NimbusThemes

    (@nimbusthemes)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there, thanks for reaching out. I am happy to assist.

    A theme’s options are stored based on the theme folder name. Since you created a child theme, the options now get stored as the new name. You would need to rewrite/modify the function nimbus_get_option so that it fetches the parent theme option in case it already exists. It would probably entail something like this:

    
$parent_theme = get_template_directory();
$parent_theme_slug = basename($parent_theme);
$parent_theme_mods = get_option( "theme_mods_{$parent_theme_slug}");
    
if (!empty($parent_theme_mods) && isset($parent_theme_mods[$key])) {
    $value = $parent_theme_mods[$key];
}  else {
   $value = get_theme_mod($key);
}
    Thread Starter westonjeff

    (@westonjeff)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for quick reply. Tried adding code you supplied to functions.php of child theme without success.

    Site errors out, saying I can’t load the “nimbus_get_option” function twice (guess once from parent, once from child?)

    So, question is, where should this code be included? If necessary, I could start over, adding options with child theme activated.

    Thanks again.

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