Problem Creating Child Theme

  • Resolved Scott M. Chapman

    (@scott-m-chapman)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I’m trying to create a child theme for Responsive for the website I’m building. I followed the instructions as outlined here to the letter (as far as I know)…

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    My problem begins when I get to the point where I have to activate the child theme. The instructions say to go to Administration Panels>Appearance>Themes where I am supposed to see my child theme listed there for me to activate.

    HOWEVER I see this instead….

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

    Name Description
    Responsive Child The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Responsive” parent theme.

    The parent theme HAD been installed and currently exists in the proper directory but it looks as if the child theme isn’t seeing it.

    Any ideas where I messed up? Thanks! – Scott

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    What code is in your child theme style.css file?

    Is the file structure correct? i.e. the child theme is not inside the parent but on the same level.

    jmag

    (@jmag)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Did you include a reference to the parent them in your child theme. At the very top of your child theme’s style.css file follow this format:

    /*
    Theme Name: My Child Theme Name
    Description: Awesome child theme to parent theme.
    Author: Jean Luc Picard
    Template: FolderNameOfParentTheme
    Version: 1.0
    */

    As mentioned by WPyogi the child theme folder should be next to the parent theme folder.

    Also don’t forget to import the parent theme’s css by using @import just after the declaration I showed you.

    Thread Starter Scott M. Chapman

    (@scott-m-chapman)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    ‘sigh. OK now I feel like a first-rate newbie (actually I am..but still)

    in the first few lines of the .css file which you have to create to make the child theme, in the “template” line I had Responsive… should’ve been responsive.

    Yes I accidentally capitalized the “r” and that threw the whole thing off. I changed it and now it works fine.

    Well…maybe someone will learn from my mistake.

    Thanks for replying to me though.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    LOL – if it makes you feel any better, it’s a REALLY common mistake :)!

    Matthewstickley

    (@matthewstickley)

    12 years ago

    @scott M. Chapman – Just did the exact same thing, thank you for your help!

    Brett Samuel

    (@brett-samuel)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hehe, so did I 🙂

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