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

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# Child Theme Help

 *  [jcoyote](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcoyote/)
 * (@jcoyote)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-help-9/)
 * I am trying to create a child theme and I’m following all the directions and 
   it’s not showing up. I used the information on the child theme codex site and
   Notepad to create the file. I used Cute ftp for the file transfer. What am I 
   doing wrong? Please help!
 * [http://www.joaniecoyote.com](http://www.joaniecoyote.com)

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 *  [Nishant Jain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nishant-jain/)
 * (@nishant-jain)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-help-9/#post-4166838)
 * Hi,
 * To create child theme.
 * Please follows the instructions at WordPress codex.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * This is only link that can better explain about the child theme concept.
 * Hope it would be helpful to you.
 * Best!
    Nishant
 *  [Giulio Daprela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daprela/)
 * (@daprela)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-help-9/#post-4166848)
 * The only thing that is mandatory and must absolutely be correct in to the style.
   css file of the child theme is the name of the parent theme in the “template”
   field. If you do this wrong you won’t have your child theme. I know from personal
   experience 🙂
    Check it out
 *  [Giulio Daprela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daprela/)
 * (@daprela)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-help-9/#post-4166849)
 * Sorry, also the theme name is mandatory, but here you can write whatever you 
   want

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 * Last reply from: [Giulio Daprela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daprela/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-help-9/#post-4166849)
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