Problems with child theme

  • Jollyirishman

    (@jollyirishman)


    13 years ago

    So I screwed up. I built my website (www.secondcoursepodcast.com) with the landscape theme. I edited the style css without creating a child theme first. Now there is an update for the theme and I want to update with out losing my edits, so here is what I did. I created a child theme that contains my edits to the code and loaded it up to wordpress thinking that if that was there I could activate it then download the update to the parent theme and I’d loose no edits. the problem is this, when I uploaded the child theme I got this response:

    Broken Themes

    The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
    Name Description
    landscape child theme Stylesheet is missing.

    I save the child theme as a .css and this is what I have at the top:

    /*
    Theme Name: Landscape Child Theme
    Theme URI: http://blankthemes.com/landscape/
    Author: Jamie Parrish
    Template: Landscape
    */

    @import url(“../landscape/style.css);

    What did I do wrong, besides the obvious of editing the parent theme.

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  • Krishna

    (@1nexus)

    13 years ago

    Try One, add a version no., and Two, install an unedited theme in place of the current theme. Also, for theme URL, use your own URL.
    http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/landscape

    Review: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Thread Starter Jollyirishman

    (@jollyirishman)

    13 years ago

    So are you telling me the only way for wordpress to recognize my child theme is for the original parent theme to be on my server? I added a version no. but I’m really afraid to download the update and the child theme still not work. I spent many hours getting things the way I want them and I don’t want to have to do it all over again. I’m new to web development and I don’t know code. I had to use firebug and muddle through. Will I experience any major compatibility problems in the future if I don’t update the parent theme?

    Thread Starter Jollyirishman

    (@jollyirishman)

    13 years ago

    by use my own url do you mean my website’s url?

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years ago

    Try changing this:

    Template: Landscape

    to

    Template: landscape

    And yes, the parent theme must be installed (not active).

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