Here’s what I have;
twentythirteen
css
fonts
images
inc
js
languages
twentythirteen-child
style.css
Not sure where to go from here, it should show in Themes right?
This really doesn’t make much sense.
Your theme folder (wp-content/themes) should really only have other folders in it for each theme, and in those specific folders are the theme specific files. Parent themes and child themes alike should all be in the themes folder.
So, you should have at least a twentythirteen folder (wp-content/themes/twentythirteen) and a twentythirteen-child folder (wp-content/themes/twentythirteen-child) sitting next to each other. Whatever else is in the themes folder is likely irrelevant to the issue.
But, I just want to confirm that you don’t have your style.css and/or your twentythirteen-child folder in the twentythirteen folder – because that would make it invisible. And the style.css for your child theme needs to be in the twentythirteen-child folder (wp-content/themes/twentythirteen-child/style.css).
Does that all make sense/help? Short of more information on the specific error or direct access to your FTP I don’t know if much more can be done on this end.
Thank you for your efforts in my behalf and your patience too.
Finally found the solution. Twentythirteen-child was mistakenly placed in twentythirteen folder instead of Themes.
Re-installing it in proper directory and a couple of other tweeks proved successful.
Don’t go away, I might be back 🙂
Happy to help. I would highly recommend reading through all the documentation on Child Themes, very useful information.
