Title: Base Knowledge Theme Base Child CSS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Base Knowledge Theme Base Child CSS

 *  Resolved [double_dd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/double_dd/)
 * (@double_dd)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-base-knowledge-base-child-css/)
 * Hi,
 * There is a child theme already bundled with this theme but it doesn’t seem to
   be allowing the style.css in the child to override the parent style.css.
 * I have 2 theories:
 * 1) The link to the stylesheet isn’t working properly in the head – not sure if
   it’s meant to pull the child theme but it doesn’t. the code is:
    `wp_enqueue_style('
   main-style', get_template_directory_uri(). '/style.css', false, '1.4', 'all');`
 * which then generates:
 * `<link rel='stylesheet' id='main-style-css' href='http://www.my domain.com/wp-
   content/themes/base/style.css?ver=1.4' type='text/css' media='all' />`
 * 2) You can hard code the style in the head and this does over ride styles. Now
   this is loaded after so should work as it does.
 * Is there something theme specific making this hard work? I’ve got child themes
   working on other sites and there is no difference between the child stylesheets
   I have.
 * All other files in the child theme work as expected e.g. header.php etc

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 *  Thread Starter [double_dd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/double_dd/)
 * (@double_dd)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-base-knowledge-base-child-css/#post-3973836)
 * Now resolved:
 * Instead of this:
 * `wp_enqueue_style( 'main-style', get_template_directory_uri(). '/style.css', 
   false, '1.4', 'all');`
 * use this:
 * `wp_enqueue_style( 'main-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). '/style.css',
   false, '1.4', 'all');`
 * This then picks up the child theme instead of using the parent theme in the link
   to the stylesheet.

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 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-base-knowledge-base-child-css/#post-3973836)
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