Title: Delete broken child theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Delete broken child theme

 *  [LouiseMc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louisemc/)
 * (@louisemc)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-broken-child-theme/)
 * I’m getting the message that my child theme is broken because “the parent theme
   is missing”. The update for the parent theme failed so I deleted the parent theme
   and reloaded it instead. Now the child theme is broken… it says “parent theme
   is missing” … but it’s not! How do I delete the broken child theme?

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 *  [Fire Truck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmv/)
 * (@zmv)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-broken-child-theme/#post-2714566)
 * Just delete the child theme files with our FTP client.

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 * [childtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/childtheme/)
 * [delete](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete/)

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 * Last reply from: [Fire Truck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zmv/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-broken-child-theme/#post-2714566)
 * Status: not resolved

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