This theme does not seem to support child themes 🙂
Documentations says you do, but the inherent structure does not support the standard WordPress override every file structure. The biggest current impact for us is that the /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/td_wordpres_booster.php file does NOT respect it’s child override file here: /wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/includes/td_wordpres_booster.php.
We had modified that for specific needs. This edit ONLY works in the theme itself. The same edit in the child theme is disregarded and NOT loaded. With the way it is today – the theme is NOT fully child compatible – and the functionality we need is only possible by a direct theme mod.
This themes documentation for child themes is the old out-dated way of including parent theme CSS in a child theme. The latest best practice method seems to work anyway after some experimenting, so that should not be an issue for us, but still the suggested method is no longer applicable.
So as it sits the only way we can maintain our updates is to keep modifying the main theme files, every time we update the theme were forced to re-add our updates until this is resolved. If you can please help that would be greatly appreciated as the theme documents and markets child theme compatibility.
Hi,
We work on API documentation for Newspaper 5 and we will change the child theme system. But this file will be modified in (almost) each update so I cannot tell you exactly if this file can be overwritten by child theme.
Thanks!
If ANY file in a theme is not overridable by a child theme file then it does NOT support Child themes in the true sense of the WP definition and cannot be advertised as such. Naturally, our strong recommendation would be to adhere to standard WP Child Theme standards and ensure that ALL files which render output are able to be overridden by child theme files.
In the practical sense… if you dont do this, then we will forever be stuck on making sure we carry over our customizations to those files at the parent level so that they survive any theme updates even if we’re making most of the customizations in the child and this isn’t marketed correctly.
Hi,
You are right, that would be ideal however, unfortunately not all theme files can be overwritten via child theme using current theme version however as Alin also noted the we’re currently working on a API documentation which will replace the child theme system from Newspaper 5 theme version which we expect it to be ready and released within next month.
Please note that the file you want to overwrite using the child theme, td_wordpres_booster.php, is a theme core file which isn’t indicated to be overwritten with the child theme as being a part of theme’s core it will be updated regularly meaning that you would need to adjust your modifications each time it updates according to the changes made to it making a child theme not quite necessary.
With that in mind I’ve also looked at the twentyfifteen wordpress default theme which based on its code, it hasn’t been built so that its core files can be overwritten using a child theme: http://screencast.com/t/13rYDaI3 – http://screencast.com/t/aJnfOP9qQF
If you need this functionality and you can’t use the theme we understand and we can offer you a refund, just send an email at contact@tagdiv.com , paste a link to this conversation and we’ll discuss the details.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks
