You can activate it through Appearance > Themes
If it was done correctly you should see it in the list of available themes.
When you first activate it your site should look no different than the parent theme.
No, I did it wrong – now my theme says its broken… any advice?
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
What’s in your Child Theme style.css file?
Hello-
I deleted and reloaded the spun theme and began a new child theme and follow the directions very closely and I was unable to get the child theme to show up in my themes. Instead my current parent spun theme says it is missing its template.
My child theme style.css file reads;
/*
Theme Name: Spun
Theme URI: http://carolinethemes.com/2012/11/04/spun/
Description: Spun is a minimalist, responsive theme that puts the emphasis on your content; extraneous navigation fades away to put your words and images front and center. PLEASE NOTE: Version 2.0 makes some major changes, please upgrade at your own risk.
Version: 2.0.2
Author: Caroline Moore
Author URI: http://carolinemoore.net/
License: GPL v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: light, one-column, fixed-width, white, gray, custom-menu, custom-background, custom-header, flexible-header, rtl-language-support, translation-ready, editor-style, featured-images, flexible-header, post-formats, theme-options
.blog .hentry span.hometitle {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 73px;
display: table-cell;
font-family: Baskerville, "Playfair Display", "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 32px;
font-size: 3.2rem;
font-style: italic;
text-shadow: 0 0 10px #fff;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.2;
vertical-align: middle;
word-wrap: break-word;
color: #111;
overflow: hidden;
transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
}
.blog .hentry {
position: relative;
}
@media screen and ( max-width: 800px ) {
.blog .hentry span.hometitle {
font-size: 24px;
font-size: 2.4rem;
}
}
-Thank you!
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Shouldn’t the comments at the top of the Child Theme look like this example: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme ?
Replace all of the code in your Child Theme style.css file with this:
/*
Theme Name: Spun Child
Template: spun
*/
@import url('../spun/style.css');
/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.blog .hentry span.hometitle {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 73px;
display: table-cell;
font-family: Baskerville, "Playfair Display", "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 32px;
font-size: 3.2rem;
font-style: italic;
text-shadow: 0 0 10px #fff;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.2;
vertical-align: middle;
word-wrap: break-word;
color: #111;
overflow: hidden;
transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: background .4s ease-in-out;
}
.blog .hentry {
position: relative;
}
@media screen and ( max-width: 800px ) {
.blog .hentry span.hometitle {
font-size: 24px;
font-size: 2.4rem;
}
}
Thank you – I did change it but I still get the the sam response. No child theme in my appearances and the original spun theme says its missing its template.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
What’s the name of your Child Theme folder?
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Ok thank you
I must have messed up on something different because the theme shows up now but as a generic theme not the spun. Did I not copy the parent file correctly?
Im sorry I feel like I must be frustrating :/
Ah! Its works! Thank you!
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Can you clear your cache? I can’t see what you mean.
