Followed Child Theme instructions for Wedge theme, but site is blank

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I followed the directions and I was able to make the Wedge Child show. You can see it on my test site here:  https://arnel-io.com/wp1831. You can view the source and see that it is the child version of the Wedge theme. Remember that the theme you’re creating must be loaded and referenced correctly.

Here are the steps I followed.

• Create Child Directory using the File Manager.  The Child folder lives in the /wp-content/themes/ folder with the other themes.  I named the folder “wedge-child.”
• In the File Manager, I clicked on New File.  I named the file functions.php. I copied the following code and modifed the “$parent_style” to reference the Wedge theme I had already loaded. The instructions state “Setting ‘parent-style’ as a dependency will ensure that the child theme stylesheet loads after it.”  This is just a fancy way of saying that the parent style requires the Wedge theme to be present when the child loads.

  <?
  function boldgrid_enqueue_styles() {
      $parent_style = 'boldgrid-wedge';
      wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
      wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array( $parent_style ),
      wp_get_theme()->get('Version') );
  }
  add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts','boldgrid_enqueue_styles' );
  ?>

• Next, I created another new file and named it style.css. I then edited that file and pasted in the next code provided from the tutorial.

  /*
   Theme Name:   Wedge Child
   Theme URI:    https://www.boldgrid.com
   Description:  BoldGrid Wedge Child Theme
   Author:       BoldGrid Support
   Author URI:   https://www.boldgrid.com
   Template:     boldgrid-wedge
   Version:      1.0
   License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
   License URI:  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
   Tags:       
  */

• I edited the code to match the Wedge theme. 

• Finally, I logged into my WordPress Administrator and then used the Customize>Change themes option to load the Wedge Child theme. 

  

At this point I tested the child theme and it does appear for me.  Can you please double-check everything and make sure that you are using the current versions of the theme and WordPress?  The WordPress installation I used in testing this was a current WordPress installation (4.9.8) and the latest versions of all the BoldGrid plugins.  Apologies for the bullets from the unordered list – I tried to put it in order with an ordered list, but the editor wasn’t being nice, so I switched it.  If you have any further questions please let us know!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by BoldGrid Support.