Thread: Trying to create a child theme and having trouble....

Trying to create a child theme and having trouble....

Hello,
I'm trying to create a child theme as a child to the classipress theme. I want to make changes to files in the include directory. So files like includes/theme-header.php and includes/sidebar-contact.php

I have copied these files into my child/includes/ folder and edited them. But then the changes don't show up. Is this a problem with 3.1.7 or am I just doing something wrong. Shouldn't it just use these files instead of the ones in the classipress theme?

thanks for any help. I have a bunch of changes to some include files and want to override them in the child theme so when I upgrade classipress it won't delete all my changes.