[Resolved] Child theme template changes not working

[Matt]

Hi,

I’m probably missing something very obvious but perhaps someone could advise me.

I have a child theme installed and have already made successful changes to CSS. I’m now trying to make changes to post archive listings (specifically to remove the link from the date).

If I edit post-meta.php directly in GeneratePress, I can see the change applying as I would expect. However, if I create a copy of post-meta.php in /mychildtheme/inc/structure/post-meta.php, this seems to have no effect. The change does not appear.

What am I doing wrong?

[John]

If I’m not mistaken, Child’s are loading these files from Parent Themes (via funktions.php) as they don’t have an own file structure!

cheers

[David]

Hi there,

most changes to templates can be done using filters like this one here for removing links from the date:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_post_date_output/#remove-link-from-date

Simply add it to your Child theme functions.php

Let me know if that works for you

[Matt]

That works. Seems like a nice tidy solution, thanks David.

[David]

Filters are great – and for most things there is a filter available 🙂
Glad to be of help.

[Author]

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