[jgcordes]

Hi, I’m helping to make some changes in a non-profit society website http://www.rnshs.ca/. We have been using the Mantra theme for some years and are happy with it.
A couple of days ago I made a child theme for mantra, and put in files style.css and functions.php. I used the enqueue method in functions.php to bring in the main style.css and that works fine, AFAIK. The problem is that when I activated the mantra-child theme, everything looked fine (this is on my localhost, using WAMP) except that the ‘above content’ area remained blank.

I searched for and tried many things but eventually had to resort to copying header.php to the child folder, and putting in this code:
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<header id=”header”>
<div id=”masthead”>
<div id=”branding” role=”banner” >

<!– jgc 2016.08.14 workaround for the banner image since this (cryout_branding_hook) isn’t working in the child theme. Probably have to do something different in functions.php to ‘enqueue’ *something – but what?
<?php cryout_branding_hook();?>
<div style=”clear:both;”></div>
–>

<div id=”header-container”>
</div>
<div style=”clear:both;”></div>
</div><!– #branding –>
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This insertion of an explicit link to the desired image worked, as far as I can tell. At least the front page looks the same as the production site.
I have 2 questions:
a) why did I have to do this? i.e. is something wrong in the code somewhere?; and
b) is it possible that something else on the site may be badly affected, that I haven’t noticed yet?

Thanks,
John Cordes

[jgcordes]

Following up on my own post. After more searching of this Forum I eventually found what I think is the answer. Our site is using the header background image, set by WordPress -> Appearance -> Header (I had not appreciated that before). This seems to resolve my problem, so that I no longer need an edited header.php file in the mantra-child directory.
Apologies for the false alarm.

John Cordes

[Zed]

Child themes don’t automatically inherit WordPress settings (header image, background image and color, menu associations) from the parent theme. These need to be re-set after activating the child theme.

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[jgcordes]

Thanks Zed. I believe I have this under control now. It is useful to see your list of settings which don’t get inherited by a child theme. May have more questions later!

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