• Resolved Paul G.

    (@paul-g-1)


    I am using wordpress and trying to create a child theme page. Do you know how to do this? I have been trying to follow the directions but seem to be stuck.

    I have gotten as far as getting it to show up on the themes page where it tells me it is missing the “twentytwelve-child Stylesheet is missing”.

    I have been working on this since this morning and I’m sure I’m missing something simple.

    So far:
    1.) I’ve created a folder in my website File Manager and named it with the same name as the template theme I’m using ie: twentytwelve with new file twentytwelve-child.

    2.) I’ve coped the code from wordpress and filled in my info:
    /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child
    Theme URI: http: //mysite.com/
    Description: Twenty Twelve Child Theme.
    Author: My Name
    Author URI: http: //mysite.com/
    Template: twentytwelve
    Version: 0.1
    */

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

    3.)created a text file containing the style.css codes from the twentytwelve theme.

    Question: do I need to reference the style.css code file someplace in the above code or…. I’m lost. It says it’s supposed to be easy but….

    Please help.

    Thanks.

    Paul….

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  • I’ve created a folder in my website File Manager and named it with the same name as the template theme I’m using ie: twentytwelve with new file twentytwelve-child.

    The folder has to have a different name – try twentytwelve-child

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    1)
    your child theme folder should be for example:
    /wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child

    2)
    the info needs to be filled into a file style.css within that child theme folder;

    3)
    no need to create that text file.

    you can also download a ready-made child theme (basic structure) from this trusted source http://quirm.net/themes/twenty-twelve-child/

    Hello alchymyth,

    First of all, I’d like to say thank you for helping to get our site running.

    I’ve follow number of steps you gave out to others on here and it’s really helpful a lot. Thank You.

    Please I do one request. I have twentytwelve-child installed and working okay. However my webpage is very slow loading. http://www.saralore.com
    Please is there anything that you can do it make it faster loading?

    Thank you in advance

    Stephen S.

    @samstemith – please start your own thread – your question is not related to this topic and posting in other people’s threads is not how these forums work.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    @ WPyogi,

    I’m sorry I’m still new on here.

    I know – it’s no problem. This way you’ll get help with you question and no one will get confused by a jumbled up thread : )!

    Thread Starter Paul G.

    (@paul-g-1)

    Thanks alchymyth and WPygoi. I ended up using the download of twentytwelve-child and it seems to be working. It wiped out a few menu items but I can redo them.

    Once I loaded the theme I could see where I was going wrong, I was closes but not exactly correct.

    Thanks again.

    Paul…

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