Broken child theme – template is missing

Resolved paintedcliffs
(@paintedcliffs)

10 years, 7 months ago
New site I’m building with Origami theme version 1.5.12: http://www.sing4mysupper.com. I’m trying to create a child theme before I begin customization of the site, but am getting “Broken theme – template is missing” messages over and over again. I’ve created child themes before without trouble, but I can’t get to the bottom of this.

Things I’ve tried:
1. Read through everything I could find in the forums.
2. Deleted all child theme related files and started from scratch.
3. Re-read the Codex for creating child themes in case I was spacing out on a step. Re-watched video tutorials for the same reason.

None of those helped.

Here is the style.css I created for the child theme:
```
/*
 Theme Name:     Origami Child
 Theme URI:      http://siteorigin.com/theme/origami
 Description:    Origami Child Theme
 Author:         [my name]
 Template:       origami
 Version:        1.5.12
*/
@import url("../origami/style.css");
```
In the Origami theme there is a regular “style.css” file as well as one called “editor-style.css” and one called “flexslider.css” — should I create @import lines for those as well? Could that be where my problem lies?

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Thread Starter paintedcliffs
(@paintedcliffs)

10 years, 7 months ago

Just reporting back that although I haven’t been able to solve this problem (and got the same problem yesterday making another child theme, so it may not be specific to Origami), I got around it by Zipping my child theme’s style.css file (after putting it in a folder), then uploaded it manually to my WP site. That worked. I don’t know why that worked and the more conventional way didn’t, but I mention it in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

Greg Priday
(@gpriday)

10 years, 7 months ago

I have created a few child themes for Origami. I have no idea why your child theme wasn’t working or why the zip/upload method fixed it. Perhaps checking out one of my Origami child themes will point you in the right direction though.

http://wordpress.org/themes/origami-evergreen
http://wordpress.org/themes/origami-paper

Thread Starter paintedcliffs
(@paintedcliffs)

10 years, 7 months ago

Thank you, Greg, I’ll check those out. Sorry for the late response; WP isn’t sending notifications when there’s a response to one of my questions on the forum (even though I’ve check-marked “notify me”). Thanks again. I love the theme!

Wencke
(@wenckigmailcom)

10 years, 3 months ago

Hi

Same as paintedcliff I am going mental with figuring out this issue. I am using the zeeMagazine theme and created a child theme with a style.css with the following header:

1 /*
2 Theme Name: zeeMagazine child
3 Theme URI: http: //herosacademyshanzu.org/
4 Description: Child Theme for the zeeMagazine theme
5 Author: Wencke Adrian
6 Author URI: http: //herosacademyshanzu.org/
7 Template: zeeMagazine
8 Version: 1.0
9 */

things I’ve tried:
1. Read through everything I could find in the forums.
2. Deleted all child theme related files and started from scratch.
3. Re-read the Codex for creating child themes in case I was spacing out on a step. Re-watched video tutorials for the same reason.
4. Tried to paintedcliffs solution with zipping it
5. tried many different writings with lower and upper case and spaces.

My site is: http://herosacademyshanzu.org/

Does anybody has an idea what I am doing wrong? I had this issue already with another theme and then decided to try a new one but still problem.

Wencke

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

10 years, 3 months ago

Wencke? This topic is marked resolved, is months old and isn’t for the theme you’re using.

Per the forum welcome can you please start your own topic in that theme’s dedicated support forum?

http://wordpress.org/support/theme/zeemagazine#postform