{"id":30,"date":"2016-10-03T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/doc\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:54:37","slug":"child-theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/child-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; top_margin=&#8221;40&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1477492592145{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]If you&#8217;re the type that wants to modify the Salient core files or just would like a better way to organize custom css then the Salient child theme is for you. Installing the Salient child theme will follow a similar process as installing the main theme as documented <a href=\"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/installation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Head over to <strong>Appearance &gt; Themes<\/strong> in your WordPress dashboard<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 2. <\/strong>Click<strong> Install Themes\u00a0<\/strong>followed by the\u00a0<strong>Upload<\/strong> button<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> Locate\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>salient-child-theme.zip file<\/strong> you extracted from the ThemeForest download archive and click the<strong> Install Now<\/strong> button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that you have the child theme active, you can begin to add your custom css into the child theme style.css file via <strong>Appearance &gt; Editor\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;8355&#8243; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221;][vc_row_inner top_padding=&#8221;30&#8243; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_column_inner boxed=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;padding-4-percent&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f7f7f7&#8243; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Note that if you modify any PHP, JS or CSS files (other than the style.css) via your Salient child theme you&#8217;ll be responsible for keeping them up to date when upgrading to newer Salient versions. For example, if you modify the header.php via your child theme and update Salient &#8211; if that file has changed in the current release you could encounter errors on your site if you don&#8217;t update your child theme header.php to\u00a0include the changes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; top_margin=&#8221;40&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1477492592145{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]If you&#8217;re the type that wants to modify the Salient core files or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themenectar.com\/docs\/salient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}