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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes Customizing WordPress Theme Files

Farid Lavizadeh
Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points
Posted by Farid Lavizadeh
Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points

How does the child theme in the new folder point to the parent folder?

How does child theme know which theme folder to follow?

1 Answer

Sean May
Sean May
9,145 Points
Sean May
Sean May
9,145 Points

It seems strange that this would have any effect on the CSS seeing the file correctly, I would think that the whole thing would work because of the @import statement, which climbs up one level in the directory and finds the style.css in the twentythirteen folder.

But, if the WP Codex says you have to list the template name, maybe it does change something.