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WordPress Build a Website with WordPress WordPress Widgets and Custom Menus How to Create Widgetized Areas in WordPress

Peter Gess
Peter Gess
16,553 Points
Posted by Peter Gess
Peter Gess
16,553 Points

Creating customized widget areas in Child Theme

When you are creating customized widget areas in a child theme, is it a best practice to copy and paste the files from the parent theme and making small edits or can you start with nothing, add the code blocks that are different from the parent them and rely on the program reading the parent theme to fill in the gaps?

Joseph Varner
Joseph Varner
441 Points

So no matter what I do I cannot do anything with the text in the custom widget. It actually does absolutely nothing with the #uptop CSS statement. I can remove it and the text will always stay aligned to the left. Why is this happening and how do I go about fixing this issue.

Apparently the style.css isn't even being seen at all in the child theme. Wordpress is acting as though it is non existent