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1. trethousandgt
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   So I followed the steps to creating a child theme based on this tutorial

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twenty-eleven-theme-extensions/

   but my site http://www.defynewyork.com wound up looking like this when i previewed the theme (I never activated the child theme)

   http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x117/trethousandgt/Screenshot2012-01-27at63001PM.png

   Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

2. Michael
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   The style.css is missing or corrupted.

   Michael

3. trethousandgt
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hey Mike,

   I just did a notepad file and entered this

   /*
   Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Updated
   Description: Child Theme For The Twentyeleven theme
   Template: twentyeleven
   */

   simport url("../twentyeleven/style.css"):

   then I uploaded it the themes area in my cpanel.

   When you say its corrupted do you think my actual site is corrupted or jus tthe child theme

4. Michael
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hard it say but it is likely just the style.css

   There is a typo in the import line, the s should be a @ and the colon at then end should be a semicolon.

   Michael

5. trethousandgt
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hmmm tried that and its still the same problem, can't figure out what it could be

6. bitkahuna
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   if you had the @ and ; right as pointed out by Michael, it should work. preview isn't always perfect either, but i'd give it a go with activate, and if it still doesn't look right when you go to the actual site, just switch back to the theme you've been using.
   i've done a child theme of twentyeleven. i'm kinda wishing i hadn't though because twentyeleven does some monnumentally stupid things and so it requires a LOT of redefining to do what you want. on the upside though it does do auto checking for IE6,7,8,9 etc.

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