Broke Child Theme?

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  • Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    This theme is broken. Template is missing.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Have you tried following the Codex instructions?
    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes#How_to_Create_a_Child_Theme

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    It was working then once I overwrote the styles.css file in the child theme folder with the parent theme style.css I got the template is broken error. 🙁

    I am going to look at the link.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Don’t overwrite the comments in the top of the Child Theme style.css file, and don’t copy the entire parent theme’s CSS into your Child Theme CSS. If you understand what the @import line is doing you’ll realise that copying all of the styles again will only duplicate code.

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Ok I need to recreate the child theme css
    Is this possible? I will look again at how to do this.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    You can do this but I’m not sure how you’ll get back your Child Theme CSS that you said you were working on before

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I didnt change anything in it I will use the one in the zip file 😐

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    OK it seems to be working I need to figure out how to change styles propery. I was trying to change the orange color but wanted to change it in child theme.

    Should I cahnge colors in the parent theme?

    Thank you.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I’m not sure why you can’t change this in your Child Theme without copying the entire parent theme’s CSS over. You should be able to do something like this in your Child Theme style.css file:

    p {
    color: red;
}

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I want every orange color out, the hovers etc, there seems to be alot of orange in the theme. I was reading about the .less file. also.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Then you’ll have to write a lot of CSS to add to your Child Theme style.css file,

    .widget-title,
.nav-previous a:link,
.nav-previous a:visited,
.nav-next a:link,
.nav-next a:visited,
a:hover,
a:active,
.widget-area .widget a:hover,
.widget-area .widget a:active,
.widget-area .widget .children li.cat-item a:hover,
.widget-area .widget .children li.page_item a:hover,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat-parent  a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat-parent  a:visited,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_parent a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_parent  a:visited,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat-parent .current-cat,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat-parent .current-cat  a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat-parent .current-cat  a:visited,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_parent .current_page_item,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_parent .current_page_item  a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_parent .current_page_item , a:visited,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat  a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current-cat  a:visited,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_item,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_item  a:link,
.widget-area .widget .current_page_item  a:visited,
footer[role="contentinfo"] a:hover,
#footer-widgets a:hover,
#footer-widgets a:active,
#site-generator a:hover,
.entry-header .entry-title a:hover,
.comments-link a:hover,
.entry-meta a:hover,
.entry-content a:hover,
.comment-content a:hover,
.archive-header a:hover,
.archive-header a:active,
.comments-area article header a:hover,
a.comment-reply-link:hover,
a.comment-edit-link:hover,
.template-front-page #main .widget-area .widget li a:hover,
.site-header h1 a:hover,
.site-header h2 a:hover,
.widget-area .widget a:hover.icon-webfont,
.widget-area .widget a:hover .icon-webfont,
.widget-area .widget a:active.icon-webfont,
.widget-area .widget a:active .icon-webfont {
    color: red;
}

    I know it’s annoying and cumbersome but you are trying to do a lot of CSS modifications, you’re trying to replace all of the colours.

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    THis is my first time using WP.

    I don’t want orange so I suppose I will change. Thank you for helping!

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    You will change themes?

    Thread Starter jessicauresti

    (@jessicauresti)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Noooo I do not want to. Just change the orange color.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I provided you the code to do that

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