Title: cannot create childtheme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# cannot create childtheme

 *  Resolved [Dr. Ashok Koparday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drashok/)
 * (@drashok)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/)
 * Hi acosmin,
    Greetings.
 * I wish to get the same CSS changes on JustWrite that I have been using through
   childtheme for twentytwelve.
 * I don’t know why this is eluding me even after 7 days of trying. With the Web
   Developer’s “style editor” I can see all the changes on the theme. That means
   I have all the necessary CSS required for the changes.
 * I tried giving a link to this as newstylesheet from header.php.
    I tried to add
   [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) from childtheme style.
   css to newstylesheet.css. I did the above after I tried copying all the CSS in
   justwritechildtheme style.css without success.
 * Obviously I have studied the codex chapter and resource links for childtheme.
 * Can you point out what I should be doing or what mistake I am doing?
    This may
   be elementary for you. I will appreciate guidance.
 * Regards,
    Ashok Koparday

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 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832040)
 * you name the style sheet in your new child theme newstylesheet.css. It should
   be named style.css also.
 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832044)
 * Your style sheet for child theme should look like this:
    /* Theme Name: <<Name
   of theme>> Theme URI: [http://www.something.com](http://www.something.com) Template:
   <<name of parent theme >> Description: Description of your theme Author: [yourname]
   Author URI: [http://www.something](http://www.something) here Version: 0.01 */
   [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../themename”)
 * all this should be saved as style.css
 *  Thread Starter [Dr. Ashok Koparday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drashok/)
 * (@drashok)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832131)
 * Thank you for the reply.
    Yes. Perfectly so. I have style.css in the childtheme
   as mentioned in the codex. I have been using twentytwelve childtheme for long
   long time.
 * All the beginning lines of the child theme are as per the codex.
    The template
   name is the parent theme: template: justwrite and [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url (“../justwrite/style.css”)
 * and below this are
    /* Additions */
 * Yet the changes are not seen.
 * In Tools –> Web Developer –> “Style Editor”
    on clicking ‘new’ when I add CSS
   changes they all get applied.
 * I can save this CSS.
    Where do I place this CSS, which I see working in Style
   Editor?
 * I’ll appreciate your guidance.
    Dr. Ashok Koparday
 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832134)
 * is the justwrite a theme or a child theme. If it’s a child theme you will not
   be able to create another child theme from it. You would have to use the twentytwelve
   as your parent theme.
 * A child theme wouldn’t have all the php files in its directory. So you can’t 
   use it to create another child theme.
 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832135)
 * You could copy the style sheet from the justwrite theme and just change the theme
   name. This will give you a starting point.
 *  [benshepp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benshepp/)
 * (@benshepp)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/#post-4832315)
 * OK.. I think this is another misguided child case…
 * I found a bug (i believe) in JustWrite’s Functions.php (its very subtle)
 * [See my post here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-childtheme/wordpress.org/support/topic/scaling-titles-headings?replies=4#post-5588366)
   for the solution… cheers!

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