vsshealy

Thanks for your reply. Man I got excited there when you mentioned the bug in 6.3. I couldn’t think of any technical reason why it wouldn’t be still working other than a break. But that particular bug is related to when the child theme name includes the parent theme’s name – which in my case it does not. And both of my issues worked in previous releases of WP. (I’m resuming work on a previous project that I built in a previous release of WP – and it was working then, but not now, FYI. Same exact code base that worked in previous release doesn’t now.)

In regards to the stylesheet, I literally have a direct call to the child theme’s stylesheet in my head tag. I can inspect the site in the browser and see it. I can click on the link and open the stylesheet in the browser and see the test CSS that I put in – but it literally doesn’t even read in the browser. I’ve just been testing something simple – changing the background color of the body tag – and literally no reference whatsoever in the applied CSS.

As far as the wp_footer hook, I directly have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in my footer.php. Nothing loads in the browser. I was wondering if that maybe might be the root of the stylesheet failing to load somehow – especially if something from WordPress is supposed to load in that hook.. But not sure.

By the way, I’ve got extensive development experience, but only work in WordPress part time so not an expert by any means in the backend of WP engine code.

Also, Elementor is really strange with support. Their community is on Facebook. I don’t have Facebook so I can’t join there to pose my question… Major fail from Elementor there.