Child theme install

  • trevjw

    (@trevjw)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I am just beginning to set up my blog and have been using TwentyEleven 1.3. I followed the instructions in the Documentation section for creating a child theme. When I try to install it I get the message”package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet”. Upon the reccomendation of tech support from the hosting service I tried downloading and installing 3.3.2 from this site. I got the same message. What am i doing wrong when installing?

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  • Frumph

    (@frumph)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    So you created a child theme in wp-content/themes/<your child theme>

    Your style.css file is incorporating the style.css from the other theme with the import call

    So, when it says your missing the style.css it pretty much doesn’t find it..

    /wp-content/themes/<your child theme>/style.css

    ^

    Chris Marslender

    (@cmmarslender)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    A – Double check that you don’t accidentally have styles.css (‘s’ on the end) I notice that happening to people sometimes.

    B – At the top of your style.css file, you should have a section that looks similar to the following:

    /*
Theme Name: My Child Theme
Description: blah blah blah
Author: cmmarslender
Template: parenttheme
*/

    The ‘Template’ line should have the folder that the parent them is in. If the theme name is Twenty Eleven, but the folder that contains it is called ‘twentyeleven’, make sure that you have the latter on the template line, or it will not work.

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