Switching to child theme

[cowboymike]

Howdy Jason,
I am one of those guys who has just about ready to go live with my Alyeska theme site. I have added a little custom css in the appropriate box in the theme options section.

I would like to install the child theme and activate it. Can you tell me what I need to do to make the transition and save all my current settings? I am using Alyeska 2.1.5.
Happy trails, cowboy Mike

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[Jason Bobich]

Your theme options (I’m only referring to Appearance > Theme Options) are saved based on the name of the current theme. So, if you were to activate a Child theme with a different name, that will change.

The only way to get around the pain of taking 5-10 mins to reconfigure your theme options page after switching to a Child theme would be to do this:

function my_option_id( $option_id ) {
    $option_id = 'alyeska';
    return $option_id;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_option_id', 'my_option_id' );

(This would go in the bottom of your Child theme’s functions.php)

This is from here: http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/saving-theme-options-and-switching-themes/

[cowboymike]

Thank you Jason. I would be installing and activating the Alyeska child theme. Do I add that code prior to activating the Alyeska child theme or after? ❓

And then should I remove the custom css from the box in the theme options section and put it in the child theme?

[Jason Bobich]

Do I add that code prior to activating the Alyeska child theme or after?

It honestly doesn’t matter.

And then should I remove the custom css from the box in the theme options section and put it in the child theme?

Yup, that’s the idea. You’d put it in custom.css — Watch this video: https://vimeo.com/41331677

[cowboymike]

Howdy Jason,
I got confused.

Should I add the code you suggested above to the child theme’s functions.php or would I use the following?

function my_option_id( $option_id ) {    $theme_data = wp_get_theme( get_template() ); // From parent theme    $option_id = preg_replace('/W/', '', strtolower( $theme_data->get('Name') ) );    return $option_id;}add_filter( 'themeblvd_option_id', 'my_option_id' );

Happy trails, Mike

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cowboymike.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cowboymike.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Jason Bobich.

[Jason Bobich]

Do this:

nction my_option_id( $option_id ) {
    $option_id = 'alyeska';
    return $option_id;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_option_id', 'my_option_id' );

… although both will technically achieve the identical result. However, this way you’re doing less work to get there.

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