Limited Child Theme capabilities

Hi Guys,

First off, awesome theme. It is the only theme on the market that got close to being able to present our content in the way we want.

I’ve been working on creating a child theme based on Newspaper for a Hawaii-based travel agency for the last couple months. I have a few questions about best practices and what I might be doing wrong in my child theme creation. As comprehensive as the theme is, there is still need in our case to make changes that are not possible given the theme options. 🙂

It appears to me that the theme is really a framework in itself and doesn’t play well with the child themes concept. Is this a correct assumption?

In my child theme I have parts/archive-header.php that was copied from the same directory in the Parent. This file works as expected. Now I want to customize the header on the home page. I find out that that is parts/header/header_style_2.php. So I copy that file to the same directory in the child, but only the html in the document renders, not any of the conditional code result. It seems like this is because the Parent Theme’s classes are not able to be called from there. Which, for instance, is why $td_customLogo = td_util::get_option('tds_logo_upload'); is empty so the logo does not render.

How do I include the parent frameworks’ classes in my child theme?

Second question: I have edited the td_module_1.php(and a few of the other app/module files) to add my own custom_post_type_render() method to that class that I call from the child theme loop file. Is there a way that I can do this in the child theme directory so I do not have to modify the Parent Theme files?

Thanks a bunch,
Tom

Thanks for the update Radu,

I am very happy to hear that you are aware of the issues and that a fix is near release.