Title: Minimatica Child Theme Stylesheet missing Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Minimatica Child Theme Stylesheet missing * Resolved [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/) * I am desperately trying to create a child theme for Minimatica. I followed instructions found on numerous tutorials to a “t” and WP insists that the stylesheet is missing. I have tried every single case letter combination, order, everything- and it is still missing!!! I think I have gone through about 50 forums on google trying to find the solution, and no luck. Here is the code as it is now: * /* Theme Name: minimatica child theme Theme URI: Description: Child theme for the minimatica Author: Nechama Author URI: Template: minimatica Version: 0.1.0/* * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“http://fiddlepicsphotography. com/wp-content/themes/minimatica/style.css”); * I tried doing the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) with the http:// etc, with [http://www.](http://www.), with “../wp-content” and NO LUCK. Please help!!! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 33 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913513) * Try this line: * ``` @import url("../minimatica/style.css"); ``` * Also, it looks like you have “curly quotes” in that URL – those cause problems. Make sure you are using a plain text editor to create that file. * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913515) * Wow, I don’t know how that happened!! I tried using your import line and it still did not work. I opened a brand new txt document and repasted all the code, then deleted the original css file i was using and uploaded the new txt file and IT WORKED. So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913517) * LOL – whatever it was – hooray! * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913519) * Ok, hold the celebration. The child theme at least shows up on my WP themes, but when I activate it it is just plain text- it doesn’t look like the parent theme. I know there is a way to fix this- can you please point me in the right direction? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913521) * Can you post a link to your site ? * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913522) * [http://fiddlepicsphotography.com/](http://fiddlepicsphotography.com/) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913523) * It requires login? * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913525) * I deactivated that. Should be good now. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913530) * Yeah, something’s not right! Do you have the file structure correct? * ``` wp-content themes minimatica minimaticachild style.css ``` * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913532) * Yes, the style.css is in the minimatica child theme folder. Is that right? * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913534) * Am I supposed to copy the the style.css code from the parent theme into the child theme’s .css file? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913537) * No, just the new file with this in it: * ``` /* Theme Name: minimatica child theme Theme URI: Description: Child theme for the minimatica Author: Nechama Author URI: Template: minimatica Version: 0.1.0 /* @import url("../minimatica/style.css"); ``` * Is that what you have? * [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/) * (@paulwp) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913539) * It looks like the closing comment syntax is wrong. Should be star and slash. * ``` /* CSS comments */ ``` * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913540) * Yes, thats the exact text i have there. * Thread Starter [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * (@fiddlepicsphotography) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/#post-3913541) * Paul, I fixed that and its still just text, no style. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 33 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Minimatica Child Theme Stylesheet missing’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/) * [missing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missing/) * [Stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stylesheet/) * 33 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [fiddlepicsphotography](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiddlepicsphotography/) * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minimatica-child-theme-stylesheet-missing/page/3/#post-3913676) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics