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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Copy parent theme (twenty eleven) into child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-parent-theme-twenty-eleven-into-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [evolberding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evolberding/)
 * (@evolberding)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copy-parent-theme-twenty-eleven-into-child-theme/#post-2740903)
 * Thanks Jan. When I try to do this, my site doesn’t work. I have a file that contains
   all of the files (`.css` and `.php`) for Twenty Eleven, and I’ve modified the`
   style.css` file to reflect the fact that this is a new theme, etc. I compress
   it all into a `.zip` and upload it as a new theme on my dashboard, but then I
   get an error page when I try to go to my site, saying that it may be configured
   incorrectly (which is likely true).
 * A tangential (and probably very very basic) question is that when I upload files
   to my host’s directory (I’m using Bluehost) what do I do with them after that?
   I tried the approach of making a new child theme directory and got everything
   onto my host website, but then how to I get them to show up on my WordPress site?
 * I’m sure that these are very easy to someone who is WordPress- and web-savvy,
   but this is all so totally new to me and I have no clue what I’m doing. Hopefully
   it’ll get easier from here!

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