Problem setting up child theme

  • Resolved dorfird

    (@dorfird)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    I am trying to create a child theme for the Advance Automobile free theme. When I choose “Live Preview” for my child theme, I get the error: “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

    My style.css file starts out: 

    /*
Theme Name: Dave's Automotive
Author: Ada Kerman
Author URI: https://www.davesautoent.com/
Description: Dave's Automotive, child theme of Advance Automobile for Dave's Automotive Enterprises of Marlborough, NH.
Version: 0.1
License: GPLv3.0 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gps-3.0.html
Text Domain: davesauto
Template: advance-automobile
*/

    after which it’s the same as the parent theme style.css file.

    My functions.php file is: 

    <?php

  // makes sure we don't expose any info if called directly
if ( !function_exists( 'add-action' ) ) {
    echo 'Hi there! I'm just a plugin, not much I can do when called directly.';
    exit;
  }

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'davesauto_enqueue_styles' );
function davesauto_enqueue_styles() {
    $advance-automobile = 'advance-automobile';
    $theme = wp_get_theme();

    wp_enqueue_style( $advance-automobile, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
      array(), // if the parent theme code has a dependency, copy it to here
      $theme->parent()->get('Version')
    );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'davesauto', get_stylesheet_uri(),
        array( 'advance-automobile' ), 
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version') // this only works if you have Version in the style header
    };
}
?>
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  • Vijay Hardaha

    (@vijayhardaha)

    4 years, 2 months ago

    There are a few mistakes in your code.

    1. $advance-automobile dash is not allowed in a variable name.
    2. echo 'Hi there! I'm just a plugin, not much I can do when called directly.'; you are not escaping (‘) in I'm
    3. ! function_exists( 'add-action' ) this will always return true because there is not function add - action it’s add_action with underscore.
    4. You don’t need to check add_action you can do the same thing like this.

    // Exit if accessed directly.
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;

    So final code will be like this.

    // Exit if accessed directly.
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;

/**
 * Enqueue child theme script and styles.
 */
function davesauto_enqueue_styles() {
	$advance_automobile = 'advance-automobile';
	$theme              = wp_get_theme();

	wp_enqueue_style(
		$advance_automobile,
		get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
		array(),
		$theme->parent()->get( 'Version' )
	);

	wp_enqueue_style(
		'davesauto',
		get_stylesheet_uri(),
		array( $advance_automobile ),
		$theme->get( 'Version' )
	);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'davesauto_enqueue_styles' );
    Thread Starter dorfird

    (@dorfird)

    4 years, 2 months ago

    That fixed it, thanks!

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