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Losing my header image (logo) in Child Theme

I have browsed the forums looking for a solution and I can seem to find one. I have created my child theme per the instructions found in the knowledge base and I did not @import or enqueue anything in the child’s style.css or functions.php files just the basics. When I activate the child theme my … Read more

GeneratePress and Mantle child theme

I installed and activated Mantle – without installing GeneratePress. Mantle is described as a child theme of GeneratePress. I don’t understand what that means. I probably still need to create a child of Mantle if I want to play around with the CSS and PHP. Thanks for any tips.

Question about Child Theme

Hi Tom, I want to change the login error message to WordPress so a hacker won’t get an idea if the user name or the password is wrong. – I learned about child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes – I learned I don’t have to add the enqueue code because GP takes care of all that automatically: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/gp-child-theme/ … Read more

Do you need a child theme if your only changes are CSS

As the title states, if the only changes one is making to the GP theme are CSS, via your Simple CSS plugin, does one really need a child theme? In other words, are you CSS changes maintained when the GP theme is updated? On a side not, I noticed while making some CSS adjustments, that … Read more

how to install child theme

Hi, Usually when I buy a theme, I’ve got the child theme in my files. I do all my customization in my child theme to avoid any buf when I update the theme. But with GeneratePress there is no child theme included. Is it normal? Won’t I have any trouble when I update the theme? … Read more

@import no longer standard

Hi Tom Im noticing you telling folk to get rid of @import line in child themes, and your statements about it neinbg no longer a standard? Do you know a URL I can read about that, yours included? Remove this line from your child CSS in “Appearance > Editor”: @import url(‘../generatepress/style.css’);

Using Child Theme

Hi Tom, And I hope with these questions I do not become your problem child 🙂 I’m pretty embarrassed to ask these questions here, and honestly almost emailed you directly, but I figured the answers could possibly help someone else, so I decided to get embarrassed. So, I really haven’t been doing anything with my … Read more

CSS in Child Theme style.css not given priority

Hi Tom, I put all my custom CSS into the style.css file within my child theme, which are directly based off your child theme template. Most of the CSS works fine and I have not issue and most of the time when I do it is my own error, but lately I’m running into the … Read more

Child Theme after configuring GeneratePress

Hi: I just implemented GeneratePress Premium and think it is great. I love the configurability of the theme and the Premium addons. After spending significant time configuring the various options available through the theme and the Premium addons, I decided that I need to make a css change to suppress navigation at the bottom of … Read more