The parent theme and the child theme must both be present in the wp-content/themes directory, and the child theme is the one which must be activated.
If you have installed a theme from the WordPress themes repository, or purchased a premium theme from an online marketplace such as ThemeForest, it is always advisable to correctly configure a child theme in order that any future updates to the (now parent) theme will not copy over any customizations you make.
Most of our WooCommerce tutorials, for example, will assume you are able to place code snippets into the `functions.php` file in your theme. If you did this in a theme without using a child theme, you’d find, on update, you lost your snippets… and therefore the cool feature you’d make for your store!
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The code snippet below will allow you to remove related products from your WooCommerce store, in case you had everything in your store setup just right, and you didn’t want to feature cross sells in your site. Cross sells and upsells Its worth first understanding which related products are being displayed in your site (the …
Are you looking to take out the outline (dotted or otherwise) from around menu (and other) links in your WooCommerce store – these links show up on click briefly, and look like this: Storefront added a host of accessibility features a while back – in version 1.4 – which specifically included adding these features to …
Have you ever wanted to remove or disable a particular tab, or tabs, from your WooCommerce store? The snippet below will allow you to do just that, from your theme’s functions.php file. Remove Tabs from WooCommerce Add the snippet below to your child theme’s functions.php file. Be sure to remove the tabs you wanted (the …
This question was asked of us recently, after a tutorial we posted, so I’m putting this out there in case anyone else wants to know this – and also so that I can link this up in future WordPress tutorials too. Where is functions.php in WordPress? When developers talk about “adding this code to your …
Every so often, on the WordPress.org forum, or some blog comments thread, or on Twitter, or some other place, we see helpful open source practitioners posting snippets to be added to “the end” your theme’s (child theme, child theme, please use a child theme) functions.php file. Then we hear of someone who has done exactly …
Another day, another little WordPress tutorial for you guys. This time, I’m posting a how to for those of you who have rolled back the old sleeves, and are actually digging into some PHP to make or edit your WordPress template. Now it should go without saying that if you are making modifications to your …
Shortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow you to edit things centrally and have them updated wherever they appear across your blog. But, often, we find, our clients would like a feature …
Ever wanted your WooCommerce orders to be marked as “complete” straight away – for example if you never need them to be marked “processing” (maybe they are downloads, or a membership, or some other reason which means “processing” is not helpful to you, for example!?)? The snippet below in this page will get you there. …
Today’s WooCommerce Tutorial contains some fairly high level code which will allow you to do something really specific, that can help with getting your pricing just right, for example, if you’re using a shipping API which is returning weight based calculations. The Use Case I created this code for a client who was finding certain …
