WordPress Child Theme Header.php Not Functioning

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I carefully followed the walkthrough here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes and fully copied my parent header.php in to my child theme.

The child theme showed up in my WP dashboard as expected and I was able to activate it. The customised child style.css was implemented as expected.

In my child header.php I call on three includes, found in my child theme's includes directory, using the 'include_once' method as such:

<!-- Variables -->
<?php include_once('includes/vars.php'); ?>
<!-- /Variables -->
<!-- Social menu -->
<?php include_once('includes/social-menu.php'); ?>
<!-- /Social menu -->
<!-- LiveChat Button -->
<?php include_once('includes/livechat.html'); ?>
<!-- /LiveChat Button -->

Despite this, my header fails to produce any of the three includes. I'm wondering if there's something I'm overlooking or if perhaps I've incorrectly implemented the child header.php.

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1 Answers

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Try using the extended path to your child theme's folder, assuming your "includes" folder is in the child theme directory:

wp-content/themes/[child-theme-name]/includes/