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How do I transfer assets to a child theme?

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Tim Wayne
10 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 10 years ago

Greetings!

I have a child theme of Vantage. When I activate it, the site looks the same except for the sidebar, which is gone.

I remember reading in other support threads that one must somehow transfer menu items and other things to a child theme, but there was no explanation on how to do this in Vantage. (Incidentally, when I switched to the child theme, my main top nav menu (an Ubermenu) transferred automatically without me needing to do anything – it’s jus the sidebar that didn’t come along with).

Any tips? I don’t want to rebuild that sidebar but I will if necessary.

Thanks!

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Tim

    This is most likely as easy as going to Appearance > Widgets, scrolling down to inactive widgets and dragging your widgets back into place.

    For reference purposes, the following usually reset when activating a child theme:

    Customizer settings
    Menu location assignments
    Widget location assignments

    For this reason I usually work off a child theme right away. Doing so means that if I need the child theme any time in the future I won’t need to redo Customizer settings etc.

    Let us know how you come along :)

  2. Tim Wayne 10 years, 6 months ago

    Your directions were perfect.

    And your advice for future theme development makes a lot of sense: Child theme should be the first damn thing I do.

    Next time. :-)

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 6 months ago

    For sure :) Glad to hear you’re making progress. All the best.

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