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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Twenty Eleven customized theme -can save and use as child theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [BBFF11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbff11/)
 * (@bbff11)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/#post-3038078)
 * **Rev. Voodoo is right. You cannot copy the entire theme as a child theme.**
 * _Childish profanity moderated_
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Twenty Eleven customized theme -can save and use as child theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [BBFF11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbff11/)
 * (@bbff11)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/#post-3038073)
 * Krishna: I don’t see anything on that page specifically explaining how to save
   a current theme as a child theme. Can you point me to which section you’re referring
   to?
 * Rev. Voodoo: Okay, so you’re saying that copying or moving over files wont work
   and could actually cause the site to crash. Do I have any options at all to save
   the work I have already done on my site?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Twenty Eleven customized theme -can save and use as child theme?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [BBFF11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbff11/)
 * (@bbff11)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twenty-eleven-customized-theme-can-save-and-use-as-child-theme/#post-3038045)
 * Thanks for your help. So this is somehow possible and I wont lose all of my work,
   great! I’m still confused though.
 * I have read the linked page before, read it again and think I understand the 
   basic idea of creating a child theme from scratch.. but what I would like to 
   do is basically copy everything I currently have in the parent and put it into
   the child theme, then do a fresh install of Twenty Eleven. Not sure what I’m 
   missing, but I don’t see any mention of or instructions on how to do this. All
   I’m seeing are instructions on how to create new files from scratch in the child
   directory.
 * At this point I have created the directory “twentyeleven-child_theme”. Is it 
   now just a matter of inside cPanel moving ALL files from the current parent theme
   directory over to the new child directory and then install a fresh Twenty Eleven
   theme inside WP dashboard to replace the missing (moved) files and act as the
   new parent? If so, do I then need to rename or add anything else into the child
   directory or is it all ready to go? Confusing…
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Everything looked great until using other browsers.. PLEASE HELP!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-looked-great-until-using-other-browsers-please-help/)
 *  Thread Starter [BBFF11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbff11/)
 * (@bbff11)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-looked-great-until-using-other-browsers-please-help/#post-3029010)
 * Oh wow, okay. Thank you for the links.
 * According to the validation check I have 5 Errors and 2 warning(s). Not exactly
   sure how to implement those fixes though. They all show “>” underlined in red,
   I assume its because I must have left a space in the coding changes and just 
   need to delete the space/or replace those spaces with the “>” or completely replace
   the lines altogether then?
 * Then the link you posted says there are six broad fixes listed for IE. I’m wondering
   if the previous fixes will resolve IE issues or create yet more problems… hmm

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