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1. dramajan
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   MY SITE: http://janprobst.com/

   PROBLEM: Having difficulty installing child theme for Graphene theme.

   THE STEPS I'VE TAKEN:
   1. created a new directory called "GrapheneChild" in "wp-content/themes"

   2. To my root directory, I uploaded a file named "style.css.rtf" which contains the following code:

   /*
   Theme Name: Graphene Child
   Description: Child theme for the Graphene theme
   Author: Jan Probst
   Template: graphene
   */

   3. Renamed this file: style.css

   4. In my dashboard, went to Appearance/Themes to activate the child theme. The child theme is not there, and at the bottom of the page under "Broken Themes" is the following message:

   "The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
   Name Description
   Graphene Child\ The parent theme is missing. Please install the "graphene\" parent theme."

   I have read numerous forum posts on this topic and just cannot figure out where I went wrong.

   Please advise.

2. Les Bessant
   Moderator and keeper of the Tiggers
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Graphene has its own support forum, where you're more likely to get a quick response:

   http://forum.graphene-theme.com/

3. dramajan
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Thank you! I've now posted my question in the Graphene forum.

4. Seacoast Web Design
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Never upload Rich Text Files...they contain hidden formatting codes - changing their filename on the server does not remove them. Upload CSS files created only from a plain text editor and saved as UTF-8 without BOM format.

   Also, you need to import a stylesheet in your child theme stylesheet

   /*
   Theme Name: Graphene Child
   Description: Child theme for the Graphene theme
   Author: Jan Probst
   Template: graphene
   */
   
   @import url("../graphene/style.css");

   The last line above is required to import a stylesheet from theme and is adjusted to correct theme folder and filename.

5. dramajan
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #
   

   Yes, thanks, got it!

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