jgailen

So I change her email to mine, even though she is the subscriber? I just want to make sure I am not messing anything up for her. (-:
I put my address there and change the Default Role to administrator? Or do I just leave that alone?

I am using Twenty Eleven (not Fifteen!), and I have made no modifications to it, so then nothing will reformat or anything? If so I will go ahead and update it.

(For the record, I tried for a solid week to make a child page but never got it to work even following the directions scrupulously, so I gave up! Maybe I will try again sometime (-:)

Thanks for your patience.

They do! (those dotted lines above are just because I didn’t know how to indent here).

There are actually 2 twentyeleven folders…one in the wp-content/themes folder where the child and parent sites are, and another in the wp-content/themes folder of the parent site that I downloaded.

I still don’t understand about the missing style.css file in the parent site itself…or is that file buried too deep in the site and do I move it somewhere else?

Thank you, Andrew. I read that when I designed the site. Nobody did anything to the original hosted site. I understand how the themes thing works, and the style sheets, and I have done everything to make a child page up to the point of the child page finding the parent site. I was told earlier that I had to download the parent site and put it in the folder with the child site so it could find it.
(At the moment, the twentyeleven folder is in there, but that won’t duplicate the parent site…I get the Child Header name and that’s it…the rest is generic and says it can’t find the information).
So you told me to download the files for parent site and put them in a folder in the themes folder where the child site is. I can’t figure out how to do that supposedly simple thing! I downloaded everything in the www file. Are there files that shouldn’t be there? Does it matter if the parent site is above or below the child site in the list?
I downloaded all the files from the parent site, but can’t find a style.css file anywhere in it. I see one on the editor page of the dashboard, but I didn’t get it when I downloaded the site through ftp to my computer. This is what I don’t understand. I know that if someone were looking over my shoulder it would be fixed in a minute, but none of the instructions are totally clear, and looking through the forums is even more confusing because there are different answers for the same problem.

So basically, all I need to know is how to get the parent site into a themes folder where my child site is(without completely overwriting the child page so any updates will apply later) so that my child site will look like the parent site, right? I know what I am looking at and don’t know what I am looking at at the same time. It’s overwhelming. I haven’t yet found the one place that will tell me exactly how to do it, and so far everything I have tried (grasping at straws) doesn’t work.

This is what I have in the wp-content file

wp-content
….index.php
…..plugins folder
…..Themes
………….index.php
………….meliabparentsite folder
……………….this is where I put all the files, etc that I downloaded, to no avail
…………..meliachildsite folder
………………..style.css
…………..twentyeleven folder

Sorry if I am so dense. I appreciate your help.

Hello again. I have downloaded all the files from my client’s server. They are sitting on my desktop. But I can’t figure out how to put them into the themes folder where my child page resides. Which files do I need…all of them? I haven’t a clue what to do here. Nothing I have tried works. I have a folder for the parent site in there, but I can’t put anything into it. I assume it should end up looking like the twentyeleven folder, but it doesn’t. There are a lot of wp-files that it won’t let me put in.
And…do I do that in the htdocs folder on my computer? It doesn’t work to add them in the text editor.
I thought I knew what I was doing, but I don’t. Why do they keep saying it’s so easy?

thanks again.

I am back to working on this again, and hoping that someone can help me soon. I know I need to put a copy of my parent site into the themes folder in wp-content where I have my child folder set up. It seems like it should be basic, but how do I download a copy of my parent site? Where do I get it? All I have found is the code in the editor file…is that it? Do I copy and paste it somewhere? Do I actually download something from somewhere? Where do I put it? I have a folder for the parent site…do I put it in there, or in the same folder as the child site? The twenty eleven theme is there, and I can’t find anything that looks like that that is my own site.

Arrgghhh. I do not understand this at all!

Thanks for the quick reply.
I have. I seems that my directory is the same as the examples there, and I used their template for writing the code above. It’s in htdocs folder/themes/Child Theme folder/style.css (On a Mac, I am using MAMP, working locally, if that makes a difference. The original site is already online). The TwentyEleven folder is also in the themes folder.

I know it is ready something because the layout of the page changed when I reloaded it, but it’s not finding the actual parent site. If the above isn’t right, what is the correct way? I have tried every combination that I have found in the forums or instructions already, but I am still doing something wrong. Arggghhh.