After I activated bbPress in my WordPress site, my child theme styles were ignored – and now WordPress is using only the styles in my theme’s original style.css file. How can I ensure that my child theme styles are applied? I am using WordPress 4.4.2, and i installed bbPress 2.5.8.

Thank you.

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

Not one I’ve heard of before

So if you deactivate bbpress, do the child theme styles come back?

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years ago]

Hi,
Not sure if 100% related, but if you know a little bit of coding, you can also check this : https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#6-load%c2%a0the-style-sheet-after-bbpress
Pascal.

[@uschesch Participant 9 years ago]

Hi Robin,

Yes, when I deactivate the plugin, the child theme styles come back.

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years ago]

ok, suggest you follow Pascal’s thoughts

[@robkk Moderator 9 years ago]

@uschesch

Are you using a free theme?? We could test to see if we can duplicate this issue.

[@uschesch Participant 9 years ago]

Thank you all for your replies. I did try Pascal’s suggestion, but that did not work. I am using a paid theme: Support Desk.

[@uschesch Participant 9 years ago]

Oh, I apologize. I reread Pascal’s suggestion and realized that I did not do one step, which I am assuming is very important. I did not enqueue my style sheet after the code. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to do that.

[@uschesch Participant 9 years ago]

Pascal, do you have an example of how I would enqueue my style sheet?

Thank you!

[@uschesch Participant 9 years ago]

Pascal, I found the code to add to enqueue my child style sheet.

wp_enqueue_style( ‘child-style’, get_stylesheet_uri(), array( ‘parent-style’ ) );

I added it, and all works well.

Thank you so very much!

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years ago]

You’re welcome !