I need help getting my JavaScript file to work on wordpress ?

Hi thank you for such a fantastic response :-) , before I look at the better way, I would love to know if this issue I have would be fixed by including the JS file in the parent theme , and not the child theme? Another question would be is , if this works with the JS file in the parent theme then would a theme update remove it since its location is not in my child theme?

Your thinking is exactly right: you can't depend on any of the code in the parent theme -- any update to it will likely break your child theme. The video above shows how to include your file in the child theme, without affecting the parent theme, thus isolating yourself from any dangers of updates to the parent. :)

In general: you never want to touch the parent theme when creating a child theme. Always keep all your changes in the child theme itself, and override functionality or style of the parent theme in your child theme. Using hooks (actions and filters) you can remove functionality from the parent theme directly in your child theme (given that the parent theme is coded properly) and then substitute it with your own.

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NP ... best of luck. Let us know how it works out. :)

Hi Mike, So I looked at the video and was a little confused since its in refrence to including a sliders JS . BUT This is my interpretation please let me know if it is correct. So I have the file called myscript.js in my child theme now I want to "activate it for use" so in my child themes functions php file I put the following :

```// Function to load theme javascript function theme_javascript() {

// Register slider script
wp_register_script('myscript',get_template_directory_uri().'js/jquery.myscript.js',array('jquery'),'1.0');

// Enqueue theme script
wp_enqueue_script('myscript',get_template_directory_uri().'js/theme.js',array('jquery','myscript'),'1.0');

}```

Is this all ? is the correct? Thank you