Focus Pro – Cannot create a valid child theme

[nofus]

Spending 2 hours already to simply create a child theme from the Focus Pro theme.

I have installed the Focus Pro theme in themes/focus-pro and the child theme in themes/focus-pro-child.

Created a style.css in focus-pro-child:

Theme Name: Focus Pro Child Theme
Template: focus-pro

In WordPress->Themes I keep getting the message that "focus-pro isn't a valid parent theme" (translated from Dutch).

When I change the Template: focus-pro to e.g. Template: twentyeleven there's no problem.Duh!

What I'm doing wrong. Start to losing my mind....`

[Brad Dalton]

This is how you create a child theme

However, Focus Pro is already a child theme so you can modify any code in Focus Pro.

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[Andrea Rennick]

WordPress does not support child themes of child themes.

Child themes do not get upgrade notices.

Edit Focus directly. That is considered a new child theme.

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[nofus]

Thanks for the answers.

So I need to put the changes in a custom.css file avoiding changes to disappear when there's an update of the Focus child theme? How do I make sure that this custom.css is loaded?

What about functions.php, can i also put changes in a custom functions file?

[Genesis Developer]

first find this function "focus_google_fonts" in your functions.php file and add the following code below this line "wp_enqueue_style( 'google-fonts', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Economica:700|Lora:400,400italic', array(), CHILD_THEME_VERSION );"

wp_register_style( 'focuspro-custom-css', CHILD_URL . '/custom.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'focuspro-custom-css' );

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[Brad Dalton]

There are no updates to child themes so you can safely edit all the code in Focus Pro which is the child theme.

Genesis is the parent theme.

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[nofus]

Okay, I'll just edit the standard style.css and functions.php files then. Learned something again. Thanks all!

[Brad Dalton]

That keeps it simple because you have less files to manage

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