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Thank you for all the documentation. This doesn’t really address the matter of figuring out where the source of the problem lies (other than misuse which was already an established premise). Although I generally dislike giving up on matters of curiosity, I take it this road is not a worthy enough learning experience due to its presumed limited applicability in future circumstances. And indeed this could set me up against receiving support in future more pushing, less capricious matters, so I’m moving on to more pragmatic grounds.

Thank you for all the support.

Thanks @threadi Okay, I understand and I will most definitely use child themes from now on, considering all the gratuitous weirdness and struggle I’ve had with this (wrong) approach.

The reason I’ve done it by copying simply put is down to ignorance and because I would expect it to work because after all a new theme that depends on no other theme is supposed to work. It makes sense to me copying would work just fine unless something in WP or WC is specifically treating the original theme in a special way like it will not treat its copies.

At this point I’m not really interested in making the copy work anymore but just figuring out the source of the problem for the sake of understanding. If you or anybody else can shed light onto this I’d appreciate.