Get Wordpress Child Theme Path in Wordpress

Question

I have a parent and child theme. In my child theme I declared a variable CHILD_DIR so I can add custom JS and CSS files to the my child theme's folder structure. I did this in my functions.php file in my child theme by doing this:

define( 'CHILD_DIR', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() );

This produces a URL which is what I want since I'm using it like this:

wp_enqueue_script('custom', CHILD_DIR .'/custom.js', array( 'jquery' ));

I also added some additional folders to my child theme which I want to use within a Wordpress page. I tried to do something like this:

require_once CHILD_DIR . '/Zend/Loader.php';

I get an error since it's trying to provide a URL and I want a menu path to include the PHP and not try and make it an HTTP request. How can I define a path for the PHP instead of a URL to default to my child theme?

Answer 1

It's almost the same functions:

• Parent theme: get_template_directory()
• Parent theme or child theme: get_stylesheet_directory()

Answer 2

For Retrieve Theme stylesheet directory URL:

get_theme_file_uri() oR 
get_stylesheet_directory_uri()

For Retrieve Absolute File Paths:

get_stylesheet_directory() oR 
get_theme_file_uri()

Answer 3

Main theme path : get_template_directory_uri();

Child Theme path : get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); or get_stylesheet_uri();

NOTE : Irrespective of calling js files or css files, For gettig the path of the theme or the path of the child theme we have to use the above functions.

Answer 4

define( 'CHILD_DIR',TEMPLATEPATH.'-child');

me funciono, is working