placing custom wordpress file in child theme folder and getting get_header and get_footer to work

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I originally installed twentytwelve as my theme. The first thing I did was create a child theme and then installed the plugin headers and footers. I used this plugin to create my header and footer.

A tutorial said to place the custom template in the child theme directory. When I do this I have to indicate the proper path for form action as:

../wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/swaghome.php

when I do that the page is found but get_header() and get_footer() don't work. If I place the file in public_html then by changing the action to:

swaghome.php

everything works.

How can I keep my custom pages in my child theme folder and still have get_header() and get_footer() work?

Here's swaghome.php

<?php /* Template Name: swaghome */ ?>

<?php  get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary" class="site-content">
    <div id="content" role="main">

        <?php   


        if(isset($_POST["place"]) && 
           strcmp($_POST("place","foot"))==0)$place="foot";
        else if(isset($_POST["place"]) && 
           strcmp($_POST("place","involved"))==0)$place="involved";
        else $place="home";

        echo $place;

        ?>



    </div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #primary -->


<?php get_footer(); ?>

and here is style.css from child theme:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child
Theme URI: https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwelve/
Template: twentytwelve
Author: the WordPress team
Author URI: https://wordpress.org/
Description: The 2012 theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. Features include a front page template with its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both index and single views, and an optional no-sidebar page template. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background.
Tags: blog,one-column,two-columns,right-sidebar,custom-background,custom-header,custom-menu,editor-style,featured-images,flexible-header,footer-widgets,full-width-template,microformats,post-formats,rtl-language-support,sticky-post,theme-options,translation-ready
Version: 3.0.1568336488
Updated: 2019-09-13 01:01:28

*/

WP Punk WP Punk · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-30T19:00:37

All right, if your create child-theme by tutorial than you can use your template with parent templates. If you haven't in child theme header and footer than they both will from parent theme.

placing custom wordpress file in child theme folder and getting get_header and get_footer to work

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