More td_api support in child theme

Hi,

I know that the theme API is not supported by the child theme but… Can you please tell me what do I need to load in the child-theme functions.php file so that I can get at least some basic support for td_config? At the moment I’m interested in adding new single post styles within the child theme’s structure (but not override the existing ones), just like you would for example use td_api_single_template::add(‘single_template_14’…
I can’t touch the main theme (td_config and so on) because I will lose everything at the next update.

I can handle the code, I just need some hints as to what should I do to be have td support within the child theme because I get “Class ‘td_api_single_template’ not found in ../child-theme/functions.php”. Should I create a new class to extend the main class td_config? What do I need to make it work properly?

Thank you!

Update:

I’ve extended the td_config class just to see if it works properly and so far it seems to have no issues running from the child theme. Adding single_post_template_14.php seems to work properly, it shows in the WP backend > Theme Panel and the files are located in the child theme, and it works like they were on the main theme.

I just want to make sure that this approach doesn’t create any major problems in terms of vulnerability or conflicts, so far it seems to work just fine. I’m attaching a screenshot with my code, I’ll appreciate if you please check it out and let me know if I need to change something.

Thanks!

Hi Bogdan,

I see you posted at the same time as I was writing. I did look at all the documentation and tutorials, that’s where I got the code from and some insight on how you guys do things within the theme. The above solution seems to be working fine, do you think it’s a bad idea to keep using that extended class?

Thank you Bogdan, it’s as I thought.

Have a great day!