Child theme not activating despite success message

1. How do I fix theme issues?
2. How do I activate a child theme?
3. How do I override the parent theme function in a child theme?
4. Which of these are the minimum files required to make a child theme?
5. Why is WordPress theme not displaying correctly?
6. Why did my WordPress theme disappear?
7. Should I activate child theme?
8. How do I know if I have a child theme?
9. When should I install a child theme?
10. How do I override plugins in child theme?
11. What does overriding mean?
12. How do I override a WooCommerce function?

How do I fix theme issues?

Locate the folder you have of the theme on your desktop and open it (if it is zipped, unzip and open it). Now when you open it you should see all your files in there, if not the theme is likely in a sub-directory. For example our premium themes all have the theme inside an “Installable Theme” folder.

How do I activate a child theme?

Activate Your New Child Theme

To use your child theme, return to your WordPress dashboard and go to the Appearance > Themes tab. Inside, there should be one theme without a featured image — your child theme. Click on the Activate button next to the theme's name and open your website as you normally would.

How do I override the parent theme function in a child theme?

Functions in your child theme will be loaded before the functions in the parent theme. This means that if your parent and child themes both have functions called my_function() which do a similar job, the one in the parent theme will load last, meaning it will override the one in the child theme.

Which of these are the minimum files required to make a child theme?

In fact, a child theme really only needs three things: a folder, a style sheet and a functions. php file. That's it. And the two files can even pretty much be empty.

Why is WordPress theme not displaying correctly?

You may have login to your WordPress dashboard -> Appearance -> Customize and found that it's not loading or some settings are not working properly. Before doing anything else : Make sure that you have updated WordPress to its latest version. Update your active theme and plugins to their latest versions.

Why did my WordPress theme disappear?

To fix your problem temporarily, assuming you have the modified files locally (on your computer), upload those files to the theme's directory, overwriting the theme's original files. ... Then you can delete the Parent theme, then reinstall it, then activate your Child Theme.

Should I activate child theme?

Installing WordPress Parent Theme

Here is how you will install your parent theme. First go to your parent theme's website and download the theme zip file. ... Note: Keep in mind that you don't need to activate the parent theme in order to use the child theme.

How do I know if I have a child theme?

Look in Appearance -> Themes. A child theme should have a notice about requiring a parent theme.

When should I install a child theme?

Before making changes to the theme code, we recommend that you install a child theme. This ensures that your changes won't be lost when updating to a new version of Make.

How do I override plugins in child theme?

You can't overwrite a custom plugin, the only way is to duplicate his content creating a new plugin, and customize this new plugin made by yourself..

What does overriding mean?

to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers. to disregard, set aside, or nullify; countermand: to override the board's veto.

How do I override a WooCommerce function?

If you want to override one of WooCommerce's templates, you can do so by creating a custom template file. Put simply, by creating a custom template, you can add new templates or completely change the functionality of existing ones.