Pinboard Child Theme Not Displaying Correctly

  • Resolved seascomm

    (@seascomm)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I have seen this issue posted a number of times, but I have not found a definitive reply. Each time, the poster seems to say they have resolved the problem another way.

    When I active the child theme, the display is all over the place — the slider is on top of the menu, and the menu is a plain text list down the left rather than a bar across the top.

    This is my first child theme and only my fourth WordPress site, and I would love to be able to understand the specifics of this option. I have read the other posts and found notes on various sites, and I can’t seem to identify what I am doing incorrectly.

    Thanks for identifying my error here.

    I took the following steps:

    I created a folder under wp-content > themes named pinboard-child.

    I uploaded a style.css file to that directory with the following content:

    /*
    Theme Name: pinboard-child
    Description: Pinboard Child Theme
    Author: our name
    Template: pinboard
    */

    @import url(“../pinboard/style.css”);

    /* =Theme customization starts here
    ——————————————————- */

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  • Thread Starter seascomm

    (@seascomm)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I continued to work on this, and I offer this possible solution for others who have similar problems with child themes. When I first attempted a child theme, I worked directly on the server, creating a folder and uploading the required style.css file.

    On a later attempt, I deleted that folder, and instead created a zip file with the style.css file, named with the child-theme name. I imported this through the Themes option in the WordPress dashboard. When I created the child theme this way, everything worked. Hope this may be helpful to others.

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