Title: enqueue child theme
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# enqueue child theme

 *  [Cristi Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cristi-roberts/)
 * (@cristi-roberts)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enqueue-child-theme/)
 * I’ve made a child theme and I’m trying to enqueue my stylesheet, but it doesn’t
   seem to be working.
 * Here is my code:
 *     ```
       function child_scripts_styles() {
           wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css', array() );
       }
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'child_scripts_styles' );
       ```
   
 * I just don’t see what’s wrong.
    Thanks

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 *  [Sean Davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdavis2702/)
 * (@sdavis2702)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enqueue-child-theme/#post-7243825)
 * That appears to be correct. Can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work.
 * Simple, I know, but verify that the child theme is activated.
 * Is your code in the child theme’s functions.php file or somewhere else?
 * How is the parent theme enqueuing its stylesheet? Is it doing anything out of
   the ordinary?
 *  Thread Starter [Cristi Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cristi-roberts/)
 * (@cristi-roberts)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enqueue-child-theme/#post-7243849)
 * Thank you for answering. My child theme has been activated. The childs functions.
   php is in my child theme. I have the css file, a header.php, footer.php and front-
   page.php in my child theme. Here is my parent enqueue
    code: <?php
 * function theme_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( ‘bootstrap_css’ , get_template_directory_uri().‘/
   css/bootstrap.min.css’ ); wp_enqueue_style( ‘main_css’ , get_template_directory_uri().‘/
   style.css’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’ , ‘theme_styles’ );
 * function theme_js() {
 *  global $wp_scripts;
 *  wp_register_script( ‘html5_shiv’, ‘[https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js&#8217](https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js&#8217);,”,”,
   false );
    wp_register_script( ‘respond_js’, ‘[https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js&#8217](https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js&#8217);,”,”,
   false );
 *  $wp_scripts->add_data( ‘html5_shiv’, ‘conditional’, ‘lt IE 9’ );
    $wp_scripts-
   >add_data( ‘respond_js’, ‘conditional’, ‘lt IE 9’ );
 *  wp_enqueue_script( ‘bootstrap_js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/js/bootstrap.
   min.js’, array(‘jquery’), ”, true );
    wp_enqueue_script( ‘theme_js’, get_template_directory_uri().‘/
   js/theme.js’, array(‘jquery’, ‘bootstrap_js’), ”, true ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’,‘
   theme_js’ ); ` Cristi
 *  Thread Starter [Cristi Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cristi-roberts/)
 * (@cristi-roberts)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enqueue-child-theme/#post-7243868)
 * I changed it to this and it works:
 *     ```
       function theme_enqueue_styles() {
   
           $parent_style = 'parent-style';
   
           wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
           wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
               get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
               array( $parent_style )
           );
       }
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
       ```
   

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## Tags

 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [enqueue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/enqueue/)

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 * Last reply from: [Cristi Roberts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cristi-roberts/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enqueue-child-theme/#post-7243868)
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