Title: WP-Starter Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # WP-Starter * Resolved [DeclanD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decland/) * (@decland) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-starter/) * Hi, Being a complete newbie (so please be patient and kind:-) ) I started building my blog using WP-Forge without (as far as I am aware) using the WP-Starter. This was because in my excited haste I saw the theme – was pleased with it and got on with building it without reading around as much as I ought to have done. Then I found out about child themes and was horrified that I had made such a basic mistake. So, because I am such a beginner I decided to go back to square one and build another blog using the WP-Starter so that I could use the Child Theme approach. I haven’t made to many changes to functions but there is a fair amount of styling changes that I’ve made. So (although I knwo that this may be the hard way of going about it all, I have copied all of the settings off the blog that I have built and went to upload WP-Starter n order to start again – build it and activate it when I had all of the plug ins and settings correct. However, when I go to upload the WP-Starter it says that I already have that theme ! Obviously I am not getting this still and have a lot to learn. I wondered if anyone would be good enough to take me through this step by step. This is the code at the start of my CSS at the mo. Am I correct in saying that this is the WP-Forge and not the WP-Starter code? * /* Theme Name: WP-Forge Theme URI: [http://themeawesome.com/responsive-wordpress-theme](http://themeawesome.com/responsive-wordpress-theme) Author: ThemeAwesome.com Author URI: [http://themeawesome.com/](http://themeawesome.com/) Description: A simple, responsive theme, WP-Forge is a combination of two powerful platforms: WordPress, the leading open source blogging tool and content management system and ZURB Foundation, the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Foundation comes packed with all kinds of goodies. You get cool things like tooltips, modal popups, a slider, pricing tables and a whole bunch more. Combine the two and you get what many consider the best WordPress Foundation theme that makes creating websites fun and exciting again! Use WP-Forge right out of the box, or use it with WP-Starter (WP-Forges’ WordPress child theme) to build the site you’ve always wanted. Version: 5.5.2.1 License: GNU General Public License v2 or later License URI: [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) Tags: light, black, white, one-column, two-columns, right-sidebar, left-sidebar, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, full-width-template, microformats, post-formats, sticky-post, translation-ready, responsive-layout Text Domain: wp-forge * Thanks Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Theme Author [ThemeAWESOME](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsquez/) * (@tsquez) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-starter/#post-6223275) * Hey there, * Glad you got excited about the theme and trust me we are all newbies at some point and make mistakes and even seasoned users still make mistakes. * You are correct, what you posted above is for WP-Forge. * I know you are just starting, however I would recommend that you start over completely, from scratch and make all the necessary changes to WP-Starter. I know that will probably be a long process but in the end you will have a better understanding of WP-Forge and child themes. * Again thanks for choosing WP-Forge and if possible, please leave a review. * Thread Starter [DeclanD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decland/) * (@decland) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-starter/#post-6223326) * Hi, Thank you so much for the reply. I think that you have saved me hours of head scratching there working out whats best to do. It was my intention to start afresh. But I was hoping that I could start again on WP-Starter so I have laboriously made a record of all the settings and plug ins on the present site. Then I was planning to upload WP-Starter and make it all look good leaving the present site working until I am ready to activate the new child theme. but I can’t find the WP-Starter as an option to upload when I go to Appearance and Themes. I simply get the message that I already have that theme uploaded. Again I am missing something simple here so HUGE aologies if its wasting your time. But I know that once I get started on the new child theme I’ll be fine (He says crossing everything 🙂 Thanks again * Theme Author [ThemeAWESOME](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsquez/) * (@tsquez) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-starter/#post-6223329) * Trust me you are not wasting my time. We all have to learn somehow and in some way and part of learning is asking questions, even if the questions are very very simple. * What you need to do is go to Appearance>Themes and see what themes you have. Look at all of the images of the themes you have. One should say WP-Forge and another should say WP-Starter. If you see two theme images that say WP-Forge then you have a problem…lol (ive actually done this before) * If you have WP-Starter then you are good to go. If you need help I would be more than happy to try and assist. Please visit my site and send me a message via the contact page. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘WP-Starter’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/wp-forge/6.5.3.1/screenshot.png) * WP-Forge * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/wp-forge/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/wp-forge/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/wp-forge/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/wp-forge/reviews/) ## Tags * [wp-starter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-starter/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [ThemeAWESOME](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsquez/) * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-starter/#post-6223329) * Status: resolved