You don’t have a child theme active on that site – so you’ll need to get that sorted first. If you created one, did you activate it (like switching to any other new theme)?
You also DO have caching – look under plugins and find SuperCache – turn it off while you are working on the site and also clear the cache under the settings there.
This shows at the bottom of your page:
<!– Dynamic page generated in 1.393 seconds. –>
<!– Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2013-03-29 19:56:35 –>
<!– super cache –>
Ok I turned the cache off and cleared it. When I tried activating the child theme again, the site went to a basic (unfinished) look that was not twenty twelve. I don’t know what that means. Under my child theme I have the style.css and header.php for twenty twelve.
Don’t know what this means, is there something else that should be under my child theme as well?
Ok I turned the cache off and cleared it. When I tried activating the child theme again, the site went to a basic (unfinished) look that was not twenty twelve. I don’t know what that means. Under my child theme I have the style.css and header.php for twenty twelve.
Don’t know what this means, is there something else that should be under my child theme as well?
No that should be it, but what’s in the child theme style.css file – using the code buttons just copy it here (it should only be a short bit – not the whole parent style.css file)?
/*
Theme Name: twentytwelve child theme
Theme URI: http://www.totemag.com/
Description: twentytwelve child theme
Author: Shelby Newsome
Template: twentytwelve
*/
@import url(‘../twentytwelve/style.css’);
img.header-image {
box-shadow: none;
}
— that’s what’s in the style sheet. Still not working.
Actually, I am looking back at my themes and it does say that the twenty twelve theme is the current theme and that I need to activate the child theme. But when the child theme is activated it just looks like an unfinished webpage. Do I need to add all of the .php files from the parent theme to the child theme? Or is there a way to have two themes at once?
Note that changes (i.e. theme settings or options) you’ve made in the parent theme do not carry over – so you’ll have to redo those in the child.
Ok this is it activated — does not look right. http://www.totemag.com/
When you say the changes don’t carry over do you mean that I will have to move all of the .php files from the parent theme to the child theme? Because I didn’t change anything on the parent theme.
No, that’s definitely not right :)! Is the child theme on the same “level” (file structure) as all your themes? (Not inside the parent theme file)?
No, you don’t need any other files in there (yet).
I think so? I have bluehost and so I went into the file manager there and went to wordpress content and followed directions I found to create a new folder for the child theme. Once the folder was created with the style.css it popped up in my themes. And when I activate it, it does what you saw.
Okay, then that sounds right or it would not show up. Did you create the new style.css file in plain text editor (not Word or something like that)? It looks like those quotes might be curly quotes which might be a problem.
I just did it in the editor on bluehost’s file manager. I literally just copied and pasted from the parent theme editor on wordpress.
I am still having trouble figuring out what the problem is.
Again: my site is http://www.totemag.com
http://www.anthonybaldor.com/creating-a-wordpress-child-theme-on-bluehost/ — This is what I used to guide me in creating the theme. I then activated it. But it did not use the twentytwelve style.css
I don’t know what is wrong and would really like some help! None of the other wordpress forums seem to have an answer for me.
