Comments on: Child Theme Support

By: Learn about Child Themes | Websites for Small Biz

Learn about Child Themes | Websites for Small Biz — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:51:46 +0000

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:45:06 +0000

Bam! Just like that, it works. Thanks Kevin! Great work.

It took a couple of tries for me to get things right, so just to clarify Kevin’s comment..

You need to add a file called functions.php to the root folder of the child theme. The file does not need to have anything in it except …

Separate thought… Now that Carrington is going to support child themes, do you plan to make carrington-blog and carrington-text child themes? Perhaps carrington-jam would be the parent theme, or maybe a new parent called carrington-cms-framework?

By: Joel Davis

Joel Davis — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:15 +0000

@alteisenriese: Place the favicon.ico file in the root folder of your site and the browsers will find it. If there’s any reason you want to keep your favicon file anywhere other than the root of the site, you can add a LINK tag to to the head of your document. It looks like this, (with a less-than symbol in front and a greater-than symbol at the end)…
link href=”/folder/where/you/keep/your/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” rel=”shortcut icon”

By: alteisenriese

alteisenriese — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:03:43 +0000

Hey i just tried the carrington mobile theme its awesome. One thing i wanna ask is where should i put my favicon.ico file? Thank u

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:21:43 +0000

Testing

By: Joel Davis

Joel Davis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:22:33 +0000

Sorry, I should have known that WP would ruin my post. What that should say is …

The file does not need to have anything in it except …

Begin PHP Tag
Kevin’s Code
End PHP Tag

In other words, you do not need to (and should not) duplicate anything from functions.php in the parent theme.

By: Joel Davis

Joel Davis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:19:14 +0000

Bam! Just like that, it works. Thanks Kevin! Great work.

It took a couple of tries for me to get things right, so just to clarify Kevin’s comment..

You need to add a file called functions.php to the root folder of the child theme. The file does not need to have anything in it except …

By: test

test — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:27:51 +0000

By: haha

haha — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:08:40 +0000

just a test

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:27:06 +0000

Hi-

I am trying to use the child theme and am trying to create a post template based on category. Am I wrong in the assumption that if I have a category ‘foobar’ I can create single/cat-foobar.php in my child theme and that be my single.php template for the category ‘foobar’?

Also I noticed that the child templates pull the wrong template_url for bloginfo so I put this in the child themes function.php and works like a charm.

$template_child = end(explode('/', dirname(__FILE__))); function get_template_child($template_dir_uri) { global $template_child; return $template_child; } add_action('template', 'get_template_child', 10, 1);
Thanks