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Child Theme

If you are planning to use this theme with a big customization, we provide the child theme that is bundled on the theme’s folder to achieve your goal. Installing the child theme is quite easy and basically is almost the same as installing JNews. This section will guide you to install the child theme.

Child Theme Right after installing child theme you need to go to wp-content/themes/jnews-child/ and in there you will found several files (functions.php & style.css). Put your custom code on those files and also additional file(s) that you want to use if you have to. You can put the customization files on the same directory structure as in parent theme.

Import and Export Theme Settings


You might need to move your theme settings. You can use Customizer Export/Import plugin.

After the plugin is installed. Please go to CustomizerExport/Import. At the parent theme, you can export the settings. The file settings will be downloaded. Then switch the theme to child theme. At the child theme, you can import that file.

Installing Child Theme


After downloading JNews package from Themeforest you need to extract those file, and then you will find zip file with name jnews-child.zip . This is the child theme file of JNews.

 

1. Go to Appearance → Themes on your WordPress Admin Dashboard.

2. Click the Add New button at the top of the page and then choose Upload Theme option.

3. After that, upload file jnews-child.zip (look at the image above) and click Install Now

4. When the upload has finished, click Activate and now you’re ready to create some customization on JNews with your own need.