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Changing the footer

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Leon Hughes
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

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

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  1. Leon Hughes 11 years, 10 months ago

    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.

  2. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    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.

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