[John]

Hi, I am creating a child-theme for my site but the results have not been good so far. I’m following the WP instructions, but am still unclear about enqueueing the css files. I can see two css files in the root directory i.e. style and rtl. Do these both get enqueued or is style only sufficient? What about all the other css files in other directories – I could find five – should they all be enqueued? In the child theme I’m including a style.css and function.php. The latter has – <?php
add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘theme_enqueue_styles’ );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( ‘parent-style’, get_template_directory_uri() . ’nirvana/style.css’ );
wp_enqueue_style( ‘rtl_basics-style’, get_template_directory_uri() . ’nirvana/rtl.css’ );
}
?>
…and this makes a mess of the menus and header, which I’m unclear how to correct. Any help please? Thanks, John

[Zed]

Since the main style.css in the root is a special case, your child theme will need to enqueue this from the parent theme:

// enqueue parent theme styling
function child_parent_styling(){
	wp_enqueue_style( 'nirvana-parent', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); // main style.css
}
add_action('wp_head','child_parent_styling', 4);

Other than that, the child theme only needs to enqueue the styles that it provides (since it inherits the parent’s functionality, parent styles will be enqueued by the existing code).

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