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  • This happened to me as well. I tried copying the function.php file to my child theme and lost all access to wordpress. Had to delete and reinstall. Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

    Thread Starter intheburg

    (@intheburg)

    I got it fixed, though I’m not sure what was going on. I uninstalled wordpress and reinstalled it, overwriting the existing files, and the broken theme message was still there. I noticed the themes listed in my filezilla directory did not match up with my wordpress theme manager, so I figured there was a problem with filezilla. I reloaded my filezilla connection which fixed the problem. No idea why filezilla would look and act like it was uploading files and showing them in the directory, but not actually connecting to wordpress. Why wouldn’t it give me an error message saying the connection was lost? Whatever.

    Thread Starter intheburg

    (@intheburg)

    I created created a new directory for the site which I placed in the themes directory, and created a style.css file:

    /*
    Theme Name: site
    Theme URI: http://site.com/
    Description: Child Theme for twentyeleven
    Author: intheburg
    Author URI: http://site.com/about
    Template: twentyeleven (this is what I misspelled originally)
    Version: 0.1
    */
    
    @import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

    and I made a copy of the header php which I put in the new site directory. I made an edit to the new header file in an attempt to insert a logo.

    I don’t recall making any other changes to the twentyeleven template.

    Thread Starter intheburg

    (@intheburg)

    Thanks for the suggestions. I cleared the browser cache, but I’m not sure about how to check the plugins. I’ll look into that.

    The exact error message is:
    The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyeleleven” parent theme.

    My second try was to rename my child theme and upload it. The new child theme doesn’t show up, but the one I deleted still does.

    Same problem. But I deleted the theme folder and the manage themes page still lists it. How can I refresh the available themes?

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