Child theme not importing

  • hazypicture

    (@hazypicture)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m very new to this and trying to do a few minor edits to the Twentytwelve, but having a minor problem with the child theme: I don’t think the child is importing its parent. When I click “live preview,” it does not seem have the 2012 style.

    I added a new folder under “wp-content/themes” called “twentytwelve-child”, created a new “style.css” file and entered the following code:

    /*
Theme Name:     Twenty Twelve DDChild
Theme URI:      http://deaddarlings.com
Description:    Dead Darlings Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
Author:         Jack Ferris
Author URI:     deaddarlings.com
Template:       twentytwelve
Version:        0.1.0
*/
@import url("../twentytwelve/style.css");

    When I edit the CSS file, my cpanel defaults to “utf-8” for character coding, if that helps.

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    You should use a plain text editor to create the style.css file – and upload via FTP – file format does matter –

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-command-not-working-in-child-theme?replies=9

    Thread Starter hazypicture

    (@hazypicture)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks – I tried this using Notepad, saving as .css and uploading, but I’m still running into the same problem. CPanel notes that the file is “ASCII C program text, with CRLF line terminators.” Notepad does save it with ANSI encoding. I tried directly copy/pasting the text, as in the link that was attached, but that didn’t seem to help either.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Have you activated the child theme? Link to your site?

    Thread Starter hazypicture

    (@hazypicture)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    I can activate it for a moment: http://deaddarlings.com/

    I should revert in a bit.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Look at the @ import line in your style.css file:

    /*
Theme Name:     Twenty Twelve DDChild
Theme URI:      http://deaddarlings.com
Description:    Dead Darlings Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
Author:         Emily Ross and Jack Ferris
Author URI:     deaddarlings.com
Template:       twentytwelve
Version:        0.1.0
*/
@import url(../twentyeleven/style.css);

    Thread Starter hazypicture

    (@hazypicture)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Jeez, what a ridiculous mistake for me to make! It took me two solid minutes of staring to even notice what you’d meant, too.

    Thanks, I’ve changed “eleven” to “twelve.” It’s not working yet, but right now I’m assuming it just takes a few moments to update.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    LOL – we’ve all done that kind of thing! But actually when you change that line, you need to switch to another theme and then back again to get it working :).

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