Title: problem with child theme styling
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# problem with child theme styling

 *  Resolved [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-child-theme-styling/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a site that was setup by someone else. I do not have access to the ftp
   at this time.
 * They used the enqueued method of the style sheets.
 * There is only one theme in the admin side called willow child.
 * I have tried to add styles to the style sheet (which doesn’t look like the complete
   stylesheet) but I get nothing. It looks like it is ingnoring the child theme 
   stylesheet.
 * 1. Should I have the parent theme available on the admin side of wp?
    2. Is it
   possible that the parent theme is outside the wp-content/theme folder?
 * I fear that the person who set this site up somehow copied all the files from
   the parent theme and the child theme to create a new theme. But called it Willow
   Child.
 * Is that the case or is there a reason someone would keep the [arent theme outside
   the wp-content/themes folder?
 * Thanks for any help anyone can give.
 * Lisa

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 *  [epicdevspace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epicdevspace/)
 * (@epicdevspace)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-child-theme-styling/#post-7396497)
 * It’s a little strange not to have access to the parent theme but without browsing
   through your setup it’s difficult to make suggestions.
 * You can try adding this to your child theme’s functions.php
 *     ```
       function theme_enqueue_styles() {
   
           $parent_style = 'parent-style';
   
           wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
           wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
               get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
               array( $parent_style )
           );
       }
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
       ```
   
 * Let me know if that helps.
 * All the best 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-child-theme-styling/#post-7396540)
 * Thanks epicdevspace, I think what has happened is that this is really not a child
   theme so without access to the ftp I can’t know how the theme is structured. 
   Thanks for the suggestion.

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 * Last reply from: [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-child-theme-styling/#post-7396540)
 * Status: resolved

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