Hi cembra,
I’ve only begun to learn how to create my first child theme over the past few days so I can’t offer very knowledgeable help. But I’ve managed to get a basic child theme working so I can at least tell you how I got mine started.
First of all, have you updated the Health Sciences theme to the latest version? It looks as though a bugfix was recently published.
Next, do I understand that you’ve been renaming and changing files in the “default child theme folder”? Unless I’m very mistaken, the folder you’re talking about isn’t meant to serve as a location for any new child theme; “defaultChild” is just the name of a theme. It’s probably better to put the files for your own child theme in its own path:
plugins/themes/healthsciences-child
If so, then here’s what (I think) you need to have in these files in that directory:
healthscienceschild/index.php:
<?php
require_once('healthSciencesChildThemePlugin.inc.php');`
return new healthSciencesChildThemePlugin();
?>
healthscienceschild/healthSciencesChildThemePlugin.php:
<?php
import('lib.pkp.classes.plugins.ThemePlugin');
class healthSciencesChildThemePlugin extends ThemePlugin {
public function init() {
$this->setParent('healthsciencesthemeplugin');
}
function getDisplayName() {
return __('plugins.themes.healthscienceschild.name');
}
function getDescription() {
return __('plugins.themes.healthscienceschild.description');
}
}
?>
healthscienceschild/version.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE version SYSTEM "../../../lib/pkp/dtd/pluginVersion.dtd">
<version>
<!-- The application should match the theme folder to ensure it is unique -->
<application>healthscienceschild</application>
<type>plugins.themes</type>
<release>0.0.0.1</release>
<date>2019-03-28</date>
<lazy-load>0</lazy-load>
<!-- The class name of the plugin. See index.php -->
<class>healthSciencesChildThemePlugin</class>
</version>
I don’t know what locale you’re working with, but you can replace en_US with yours:
healthscienceschild/locale/en_US/locale.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE locale SYSTEM "../../../../../lib/pkp/dtd/locale.dtd">
<locale name="en_US" full_name="U.S. English">
<message key="plugins.themes.healthscienceschild.name">Health Sciences Child Theme</message>
<message key="plugins.themes.healthscienceschild.description">A description for the Health Sciences Child Theme</message>
</locale>
that solved the way the theme and its description is displayed.