Changes not working at child theme

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#1

Hey guys. I have this post: http://wordpress-100914-338778.cloudwaysapps.com/opening-day-new-records/

Where the post is in the following categories:

Homepage Highlight
Latest News

As a result, for the post meta information, it would typically show:

In Homepage Highlight, Latest News by support / September 6, 2017

I wanted it to say instead:

By support / September 6, 2017

Which means that the category elements are removed (In Homepage Highlight, Latest News) and the “by” is capitalized (By).

Therefore, I copied this file from the parent theme folder:

/public_html/wp-content/themes/pro/framework/functions/ethos.php

and placed it in the child theme folder as:

/public_html/wp-content/themes/pro-child/framework/functions/ethos.php

but it did not work under the child theme, so I had to push the update to the parent theme folder by overwriting the file.

Note, I retained the original in the parent theme folder under this name:

/public_html/wp-content/themes/pro/framework/functions/ethos.phpbkup

Now it is working. However, the problem is that I’d like for this to be in the child theme.

Can someone advise on what I did wrong here?

Thanks a lot in advance

#2

Hi There,

Yes, what you did will not work. Copying certain files on the same folder on the child theme will only work for files on the view folder: /public_html/wp-content/themes/pro-child/framework/views.

For content on this folder functions files, we have to copy the entire function you have edited to functions.php file on your child theme.. Now copy the entire function x_ethos_entry_meta() functions on your child theme functions.php instead.

Hope this helps.