Title: Theme Ignite Child – Broken Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Theme Ignite Child – Broken * [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/) * Hi, WP got upgraded automatically, and my blog urls stopped working. I changed theme to twenty fifteen, and can view my blog posts once again. * I changed back to ignite child, and it shows it is broken. * 1. How can I fix this, as it’s not showing all the custom bits I did to it. * Thanks for any help. * Regards, * Rashid Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994711) * [http://www.hijamalondon.com/Blog](http://www.hijamalondon.com/Blog) * Msg at top of themes screen * The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme. * Message at the bottom of Themes screen * Broken Themes * The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template. * Name Description ignite Stylesheet is missing. * [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/) * (@crouchingbruin) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994741) * So you created a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) of the [Ignite theme](https://wordpress.org/themes/search/ignite/), you made some changes to the child theme, then your WordPress version got upgraded, and now your child theme is complaining about a missing stylesheet. What happens when you activate the parent Ignite theme? * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994933) * I didn’t make any changes to my working blog, the WP vers got automatically upgraded and my blog went down. * I don’t have the parent, ignite theme listed in my themes. * Broken Themes * The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template. * Name Description ignite Stylesheet is missing. Delete * Where do I go to get a stylesheet & template. When I go to add theme, (ignite), it says it is already installed. * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994934) * I wished I had backed this up!! * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994938) * First, go to your SuperCache plugin and clear the cache on your site. Then deactivate that plugin until you have this sorted out. * Then if you still can’t activate Ignite, use FTP or Cpanel to find your themes folder on the server and delete that theme. * Then you should be able to reinstall it from the Dashboard. * Then see if your child theme can be activated. * [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/) * (@crouchingbruin) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5994939) * Just to clarify WPyogi’s instructions, look for the **ignite** folder under the WordPress theme’s folder (/wp-content/themes) and delete just that folder (** ignite**). * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5995021) * Thank you all for your help. I am getting somewhere now. * I have de-activated SuperCache Plugin and deleted Ignite folder & successfully re-installed the Ignite theme. This has activated fine. * The child theme is now activating, but my customization menus etc. have disappeared. * Which file in the old ignite folder will hold my child theme customazation details? * Thanks Rashid * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5995022) * When I de-activate Ignite-Child, then the side-bar with the menu is showing, but custom child background colour is lost, and when I activate the ignite-child them the side-bar goes missing. * [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/) * (@crouchingbruin) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5995023) * > Which file in the old ignite folder will hold my child theme customazation > details? * There would be no files in the **ignite** folder which would hold your customizations. If the theme has any customization options, they would normally be stored in a database table, and would theoretically be available again to the theme once you re-activated it. The only customizations you would have lost would be if you had previously made any changes directly to the **ignite** files. That’s why you created a child theme. The child theme should have all of the customizations you did to the site so you wouldn’t have to make changes to the parent theme files. * If you activate the child theme, I can take a look and see what the problem might be with the sidebar. * Thread Starter [rlohiya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlohiya/) * (@rlohiya) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5995024) * Thank you CrouchingBruin, the child theme has now been re-avtivated, with the side bar missing. * Regards * [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/) * (@crouchingbruin) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-ignite-child-broken/#post-5995025) * The code for the sidebar appears to be still there. If you go to **Appearance → Widgets** from the admin dashboard, do you see any widgets in the sidebar area? Can you try dragging over a Recent Posts widget, for example? 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