2011 Child Theme Problems When Running Under MAMP on Mac

lottrr
(@lottrr)

12 years, 9 months ago

I tried creating a child theme for 2011 using the following style.css and following the directions on the site:
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Theme URI: My URL
Description: My own Twenty Eleven Copy for purposes of reducing vertical space
Author: Robert Lott
Template: twentyeleven
*/

I get the following error message:
Twenty Eleven Child\ The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyeleven\” parent theme.

I tried activating another theme and then back to twentyeleven, but it did not solve the problem.

The directory structure when running under MAMP is:
applications/mamp/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/MyTwentyEleven/style.css

Help

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Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

12 years, 9 months ago

is the original twentyeleven actually in place in the themes directory?

Thread Starter lottrr
(@lottrr)

12 years, 9 months ago

Yes. That is what I am normally using on the site.
Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

12 years, 9 months ago
That’s peculiar…. your header looks like mine
```
/*
Theme Name:     Voodoo Child 2011
Theme URI:      http: www.rvoodoo.com/projects/wordpress/wordpress-tip-stop-editing-twentyten-theme-use-a-child-theme
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author:         Rev. Voodoo
Author URI:     http: //www.rvoodoo.com
Template:       twentyeleven
Version:        0.1.0
*/
```
Thread Starter lottrr
(@lottrr)

12 years, 9 months ago

Is is possible that my problem is related to running under a simulated server (MAMP on my Mac) rather than a live server?

Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

12 years, 9 months ago

I don’t know much about MAMP specifically, or what configuration issues there could be.

I run WAMP on my windows machine, and work with child themes all the time….. maybe permissions issues or something, but I’ll have to defer to someone more knowledgeable

Thread Starter lottrr
(@lottrr)

12 years, 9 months ago

!!Problem Solved!!

My TwentyEleven child theme was created using TextEdit on the mac, which creates an RTF file. This does not work as a css file. I had to create the child file using a true text editor and the problem was solved.

Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

12 years, 9 months ago

Cool, good job!

Chris Perez
(@sforscarlet)

12 years, 8 months ago

lottrr,

what text editor did you use for Mac?

jwilliamsua
(@jwilliamsua)

12 years, 8 months ago

ahhh, i think i am also having this problem, what are you using now? Thanks..

Thread Starter lottrr
(@lottrr)

12 years, 8 months ago

I used TextWrangler to successfully edit the files.

JustBob
C2E
(@c2e)

12 years, 8 months ago
Lottrr:
```
/*
Theme Name: Twentyeleven Child
Description: Child theme for the twentyeleven theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyeleven
*/

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");
```
Don’t forget to import the css from twentyeleven