Wordpress Child theme files not overriding

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From the Wordpress Codex:

Template Files If you want to change more than just the stylesheet, your child theme can override any file in the parent theme: simply include a file of the same name in the child theme directory, and it will override the equivalent file in the parent theme directory when your site loads. For instance, if you want to change the PHP code for the site header, you can include a header.php in your child theme's directory, and that file will be used instead of the parent theme's header.php.

When I copy and change files from the parent theme into the exact same location in the child theme, one would suspect those changes to reflect from the above text, am I right? However, the changes do not reflect at all... All I can really do is change style.css and functions.php of the child theme... NOTHING else works as it's supposed to.

I have copied responsive-1240.css from /css/responsive-1240.css into /css/responsive-1240.css

I then made changes in this new file, but they do not reflect.

What am I doing wrong?

Hey mevius, thank you for quick response. I have updated the description. — alarian
That only works for php files, not for functions files, stylesheets and scipts — Pieter Goosen

alarian alarian · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-06T11:55:10

That only works for php files, not for functions files, stylesheets and scipts – Pieter Goosen

What you need to do is dequeue the stylesheet somehow and requeue it or put the changes in style.css

Wordpress Child theme files not overriding

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