Title: Child Theme Not Loading CSS
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Child Theme Not Loading CSS

 *  [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/)
 * Hello,
 * I am trying to make a child theme for a site. The css stylesheet is not loading,
   leaving me with a blank white screen. Help! At this point, I just want to pull
   in the parent theme’s css (or ANY css for that matter!)
 * Thanks in advance!
 * My CSS:
 *     ```
       /*
        Theme Name:   Rios Property Group
        Theme URI:    http://riospropertygroup.com/
        Description:  Rios Property Group
        Author:       Angelina Marie
        Author URI:   http://angelina-marie.com/
        Template:      Rios_Prop_Group
        Version:      1.0.0
       */
       ```
   
 * Functions.php:
 *     ```
       <?php
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'load_my_styles' );
       function load_my_styles() {
           wp_enqueue_style( 'Rios_Prop_Group', get_template_directory_uri() . '../style.css' );
       }
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5417994)
 * Use get_stylesheet_uri()
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418046)
 * Do you mean switch out get_template_directory for get_stylesheet_uri?I’ve tried
   that to no avail.
 * I also tried get_stylesheet_uri separately, and I still just have a blank white
   screen. Looking at the DOM, it is not calling any stylesheets at all. I’m not
   sure as to why!
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418048)
 * > Do you mean switch out get_template_directory for get_stylesheet_uri?
 * Yes but also take off your “..”
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418051)
 * I did that. My screen is still blank. The website is riospropertygroup.com. My
   files are lined up correctly, as in:
 * wordpress-content>
    themes> Rios_Prop_Group Rios_Prop_Group_Child
 * I am at a loss as to why nothing is showing.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418054)
 * What’s in your entire child theme functions.php file?
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418055)
 *     ```
       <?php
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'load_my_styles' );
       function load_my_styles() {
           wp_enqueue_style( 'Rios_Prop_Group', get_stylesheet_uri(). '/style.css' );
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418056)
 * Put a closing PHP tag on the end of the file just in case
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418058)
 * Still nothing.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418059)
 * Does the website show at all when there is no functions.php file in your child
   theme?
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418062)
 * No.
 * I bought a template off of theme forest. I just tried to use the original parent
   template as my theme, and that is also coming across blank. I would imagine that
   if my parent theme isn’t working, neither would my child theme.
 * So I guess that leaves me with this: Why doesn’t the parent theme work? Ugh!
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418065)
 * Have you spoken to your theme author about this?
 *  Thread Starter [ambethoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambethoney/)
 * (@ambethoney)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418067)
 * No, that will be my next step. I just moved all files out of the WP folder to
   start fresh. I re-downloaded the theme I purchased and tried to activate it. 
   I’m receiving this error:
 * Broken Themes
 * The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet
   and a template.
 * Name Description
    www/css Template is missing.
 * I moved the stylesheet from the css folder into the main theme folder, and was
   greeted with:
 * Broken Themes
 * The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet
   and a template.
 * Name Description
    www Template is missing.
 * This is an error on the theme author, correct? I just want to make sure I didn’t
   do anything wrong…

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-not-loading-css/#post-5418067)
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