Installing and testing our child theme example

Now that we have created a child theme to extend the classic theme, let’s try it!

Just like all the themes, we can install and change the theme’s settings via the Design | Theme & Logo BO page. If we go to this page from our BO, we should find this screen:

Figure 14.1 – The theme installation interface

By clicking on the Use this theme button, it will activate our child theme. If we go to our FO index page after activating the child theme, nothing should have changed; it just displays all the content from the parent Classic theme.

To test the explained concepts presented in the last section of this chapter, please add the /themes/childclassicwh/templates/index.tpl file containing this code:

{extends file='parent:page.tpl'}
    {block name='page_content_container'}
      TEST
    {/block...