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1. Victoria_mr
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello..

   I recently learnt about the Theme_Frameworks technology that uses child-themes in order to avoid future problems.
   So, i am trying to make a child theme by myself and use it without worrying about losing my changes when the parent theme is updated, since the changes are in the child theme.
   Check this url: http://op111.net/53

   I did all steps indicated in this page but when i reached on step7 that i had to activate my child theme i faced a problem:
   In the administrator panel, the theme i created does not appear since there is a warning saying that for each theme there must be at least a stylesheet and a prototype file (translation from greek - i hope you know what i mean - i thought it meant the index.php file ???)
   I think everything is ok with the style.css file (according to the page indicated above) but what about the other one?
   Which is this file?

   Please tell me if there is something that i'm doing wrong or if there is something else that i have to do, so that the theme can be recognised in the administrator panel.

   Note (that may be important):
   I work topically in my pc and the child-theme is situated in a folder (named "kid") URI /wp-contents/themes/ and contains the style.css file.

   Thanks in advance for your help.

2. Christian Schenk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've just tried to reproduce this and the error message is:

   The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

   This happens because the parent theme you specified in the header of the file (style.css) after the line saying Template doesn't exist in your theme folder. Of course, to create a child theme you need a parent theme.

   Upload a theme you'd like to create a child theme for, e.g. Arclite, and change the line to, say, Template: arclite.

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