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Posted by Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points

Why are my widgets not showing up in the child theme I created?

I used the theme created in this tutorial as the parent theme. I am using the following code to enqueue my parent and child themes:

<?php function use_parent_theme_stylesheet() { // Use the parent theme's stylesheet return get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css'; }

function my_theme_styles() { $themeVersion = wp_get_theme()->get('Version');

// Enqueue our style.css with our own version
wp_enqueue_style('child-theme-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
    array(), $themeVersion);

}

// Filter get_stylesheet_uri() to return the parent theme's stylesheet add_filter('stylesheet_uri', 'use_parent_theme_stylesheet');

// Enqueue this theme's scripts and styles (after parent theme) add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_styles', 20);

?>

Thanks for any suggestions.

3 Answers

Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points
Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points

Sorry to trouble you - I managed to solve it. I used this code instead from Wordpress codex (https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes):

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' ); function theme_enqueue_styles() { 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') ); }

Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points
Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points

Actually I thought I had solved the problem but it turned out I actually had the parent theme activated. With the child theme activated same problem I am afraid.

Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points
Biswadip Dasgupta
Biswadip Dasgupta
339 Points

It turns out the widgets have moved to the "Inactive widgets" area so I can drag them back to activate them again. I still don't understand though whether this is normal behaviour whenever you create a child theme. I would have thought the child them would have inherited the widget functionality defined in the parent theme rather than having to repeat the process of setting them up for the child theme? Maybe I am missing something.