Title: basic child theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# basic child theme

 *  [fpjb10w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpjb10w/)
 * (@fpjb10w)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-child-theme/)
 * following instructions from: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * I created a child theme, added the style sheet.
 * When I went to active the theme in WordPress, it tells me
    “This theme is broken.
   Template is missing.”
 * I have not altered the twentyeleven parent theme at all & do not know what I 
   need to do to remedy this.
 * very low on the learning curve…any help appreciated.

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 *  [miltonfriesen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miltonfriesen/)
 * (@miltonfriesen)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-child-theme/#post-2816337)
 * I had that problem too. I was trying to make a child theme for Twenty Ten. I 
   Named the Parent theme in my child theme like;
 * Template: Twenty Ten
 * And it asked me to install Twenty Ten. Then I found out that if i change the 
   Template name to;
 * Template: twentyten
 * It recognized the parent theme. But I have no clue why, because the css stylesheet
   of the Twenty Ten theme calls the theme “Twenty Ten”. Anybody know why?

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