Hello,
I am making a child theme from your vantage theme.
I would like to modify the footer a bit to add a custom menu in the footer. I have copied the footer.php file from vantage/parts theme directory and copied it into a similar vantagechild/parts directory.
I then change the filename to footerchild.php and the part name in the php file to footerchild and it successfully appears in the theme settings under footer layout.
However, when I select it and hit save settings I still get the default footer, not my footerchild.
Interestingly, if I leave the file name in my child/parts folder as footer.php the child theme footer does appear.
Is this a known bug, or do I need vantage premium to do this?
If you need more info I will happily provide more details.
Thanks,
Leon
Also, when the footerchild.php file is renamed footer.php I loose the option of the default footer in the footer layout of the theme settings.
Hi Leon
You shouldn’t save your child theme files with a “child” suffix. Just placing those files in the child means they get priority over the same file in the parent theme.
Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Hope that helps.