Fatal Error when Previewing Child Theme

  • livelovepasta

    (@livelovepasta)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    I am trying to create a twenty-ten child theme before I do this update because I never made a child theme after last update and have made many simple edits since then directly on the twenty-ten theme and I don’t have a list of what I changed.

    I went into file manager and created the folder for the child in the right spot and what I did was just copied the exact style.css file from the twenty-ten folder and added it to the child folder. Then I edited the header of the style.css in the header to say:

    /*
Theme Name:     Twenty Ten Child
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Template:       twentyten
Version:        0.1.0
*/

/* =Reset default browser CSS. Based on work by Eric Meyer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/index.html

    I also did exact copies of the functions.php and the header.php becasue I think I may have made changes to those as well and put them into the child folder.

    When I went into the dashboard and tried to preview my child template it gave me this error: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare twentyten_page_menu_args() (previously declared in /home8/livelow7/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten-child/functions.php:221) in /home8/livelow7/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 224”

    What did I do wrong and how can I fix it, thank you.

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    you can’t have an exact copy of functions.php….. that is what I tried to explain earlier…. I must not have done a good job

    You modify things using your child theme’s functions.php, using filters, actions, etc. But twentyten’s functions.php will always load

    Delete the functions.php from your child theme, and you should be all set!

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    http://voodoopress.com/2011/02/modifying-headers-from-a-twentyten-child-theme/

    Here’s a post with an example of overriding some twentyten functionality

    Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    First of all, if that really is the content of your style.css file, you open a comment that you never closed.

    /* =Reset default browser CSS. Based on work by Eric Meyer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/index.html

    should be:

    /* =Reset default browser CSS. Based on work by Eric Meyer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/index.html */

    Secondly, from the error message, it looks like you copied the functions.php file from twentyten and pasted it into twentyten-child. You shouldn’t do that. You should create a new, blank functions.php file in twentyten-child, and start from scratch there. Then, just create the new functions you need for your child theme; as all of the original twentyten functions will be automatically inherited.

    EDIT – Looks live voodoo beat me to it. 🙂

    Thread Starter livelovepasta

    (@livelovepasta)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Ok sorry and thanks for the replies. I just removed the functions.php from the child theme folder and then the preview looked great. I actually don’t think I even changed anything from the functions.php to begin with.

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