Title: Child Theme Broken
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Child Theme Broken

 *  [nonchalantpeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonchalantpeach/)
 * (@nonchalantpeach)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-broken-3/)
 * I read through several other forum posts on this topic, but I was unable to fix
   my issue. Your help is greatly appreciated. This is my first time doing this.
 * I’m attempting to create a child theme for a theme called buro.
 * I am working on this through Cyberduck FTP and using Komodo Edit. I went into
   the /public_html/wp-content/themes folder and created a folder named burochild
 * I then created a file style.css within burochild and placed within it the following
   code in Komodo Edit:
 * /*
    Theme Name: Buro Child Theme URI: http: //www.lingbphotography.com/ Description:
   Child theme for the Buro theme Author: Hannah March Sanders Author URI: http://
   orangebarrelindustries.com/ Template: burochild Version: 0.1.0 */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../buro/style.css”);
 * #header {
    height: 150px; }
 * I tried several different url formats under the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“”) including typing out the full address of the location of the style.css
   file in the original buro theme.
 * I uploaded my new folder and css file using Cyberduck, but everytime I go to 
   the WordPress dashboard, go to themes, and click to “Activate” my “burochild”
   theme, it says “The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.” 
   Then my child theme disappears from the list of available themes. If I click 
   on “Themes” on the lefthand toolbar again, it appears again.
 * I know I probably just typed something in wrong, but I can’t for the life of 
   me see what. When I go directly to the link for my new style sheet in my child
   theme, I can see it:
    [http://lingbphotography.com/wp-content/themes/burochild/style.css](http://lingbphotography.com/wp-content/themes/burochild/style.css)
 * And the original stylesheet:
    [http://lingbphotography.com/wp-content/themes/buro/style.css](http://lingbphotography.com/wp-content/themes/buro/style.css)
 * Thanks!

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-broken-3/#post-3714887)
 * The template should reference the parent theme:
 *     ```
       Template: burochild
       ```
   
 * should be:
 *     ```
       Template: buro
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [nonchalantpeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonchalantpeach/)
 * (@nonchalantpeach)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-broken-3/#post-3714891)
 * THANK YOU!

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 * Last reply from: [nonchalantpeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonchalantpeach/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-broken-3/#post-3714891)
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