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How to enqueue stylesheets in a child theme?
The recommended way of enqueuing the stylesheets is to add a wp_enqueue_scripts action and use wp_enqueue_style () in your child theme’s functions.php. If you do not have one, create a functions.php in your child theme’s directory.
How to enqueue both parent and child themes?
The ideal way of enqueuing stylesheets is for the parent theme to load both (parent’s and child’s), but not all themes do this. Therefore, you need to examine the code of the parent theme to see what it does and to get the handle name that the parent theme uses.
How to enqueue script to child theme in WordPress?
It is in the child theme themes/pho-child/js/custom.js Now it looks better. In the Chrome inspector it is listed as: THANKS! Now I need to get that custom.js working.
How is functions.php loaded in a child theme?
Unlike style.css, the functions.php of a child theme does not override its counterpart from the parent. Instead, it is loaded in addition to the parent’s functions.php. (Specifically, it is loaded right before the parent’s file.)
How to enqueue parent theme to child theme?
Delete the @import line from your child theme´s style.css file. Create a functions.php file in your child theme´s directory (if you don´t have one yet). Add the following code to your child theme´s functions.php file: * Loads the parent stylesheet.
How to include styles in WordPress child themes?
When added to your Child Theme, this function will include both parent and child stylesheets. Notice that we’re defining the dependency parameter in the child-theme enqueue, array(‘parent-theme’). This tells WordPress that the child styles are dependent on the parent styles, so WordPress will load the parent styles first.
When to use @ import in child themes?
Even though modern browsers can load assets in parallel, the mere fact that @import is used within the child theme´s stylesheet means that this stylesheet needs to be loaded before the browser even knows that it still needs to download yet one more stylesheet (the parent theme´s style.css called by the @import directive).