not pulling/publishing saved changes in child theme

  • Resolved khit

    (@khittner)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Ok can someone please walk me through this:

    When I create child theme and go into it to customize it pulls from parent theme for functionality and appearance. I make my changes and save. When I preview within the customization (using provided link in customize screen) it opens and everything is exactly how I want it. However, when I page preview from WordPress dashboard… nothing that I have done shows. I also published a couple pages to test. No changes made appear.

    question: why is my child theme not overriding my parent theme’s styles and functions?

    When I change my menu in the child theme customize screen why is that not being loaded?

    Could someone please walk me through the child theme process setup and explain what I am doing wrong? I have followed every step of the codex to do this with both the style.css and functions.php.

    What is the point of using the child theme customize if it doesn’t load any of the saved portions? Where do those saved changes go? How do I get them to override the parent?

    Please dumb it down for me. I am very new at this. Please do not send screenshots of my code without explanation of where to find that code and how to fix it. I appreciate your patience.

    I have deleted the original child theme and did a dummy twentyseventeen child just for example as it is doing same thing.

    What EXACTLY do I need to do to set up child theme so that I can customize in customize link and have it look like I want to override the parent theme??

    I have cleared cache. Caching on server not issue. Done basic re-install. Also, it seems to be glitchy sometimes. When I hover mouse over large theme icons they wiggle. Nothing seems to work. Do I need to do a fresh new complete installation??

    Very frustrated. I had this topic open in another thread. I apologize opening new thread. I cannot find any fixes. I tried Codex.

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  • Rachna

    (@rachna90)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Khit,

    The most likely causes are:

    1. Rename the child theme folder from “revelar child theme” to “revelar-child-theme” … or anything without spaces or accented characters.
    2. You are not linking to your stylesheet properly
    (are you sure your style.css or however is called is properly linked via link rel in your html document?)
    3. You did not save changes to your html and css files before refreshing the page.
    4. You are not using proper selectors (eg. your have a div id=”main”) and you are referencing it as .main instead of #main.

    You can simply refer to link below, It has different steps/possibilities which can guide you.
    https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/I_Make_Changes_and_Nothing_Happens

    Might help you.

    Thread Starter khit

    (@khittner)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, Rachna! Thank you for your response.

    1. The folder/directory has the – and no spaces.

    2. I am not sure about this. Can you explain further, please? How do I check and what am I looking for? I appreciate your patience I am very new to this.

    3. I saved via the Save Draft button at the top of my customize screen.

    4. Again, How do I find and check?

    I had already done the reading at your suggested link. Completed the suggested tasks and did not fix.

    Thank you for how thorough and knowledgeable you are! I really appreciate you.

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