Changing example child theme style.css breaks template

  • heidiweiland

    (@heidiweiland)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hello there… This is really strange. I have been using WordPress and the theme Thematic for several months now and have never had a problem. I just resently set up another development site on my local drive and have been having an impossible time of activating a child theme based on Thematic. I move the example child theme folder up from the themes/thematic/ folder and activate the child template in the WordPress interface just fine. Then, I open style.css, make a change, undo the change and then save, which causes the template to break (showing the “Template is missing” message).

    I’ve wasted several hours trying to get it to get this to work where, before, it was nearly automatic. Could this be a problem with the latest version of WP????

    Thanks in advance for any insight.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Are you making your changes in the child theme’s stylesheet(s)?

    Thread Starter heidiweiland

    (@heidiweiland)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Originally, I was modifiying the style.css in the child template. After much frustration, I’ve traced it back to this: Everything works, then I open style.css, make a change, undo it, save and, voila… “the template is missing”.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    I’m not having any problems using Thematic with a child theme locally here. However, I did notice some non-standard characters in the sample child theme’s style.css file which I immediately removed:

    Thematic is © Ian Stewart http://themeshaper.com/

    In theory, they shouldn’t affect anything as they’re inside a comment block but if they are still in your child theme, it might be worth removing that line and seeing if it has any effect.

    Thread Starter heidiweiland

    (@heidiweiland)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, esmi, but, unfortunately, it didn’t work. If I go into the database and manually change the stylesheet, the correct template will be applied to the site. So far, that’s the only thing that’s worked. Could this be a problem with multiple installations of WP on one server? That sounds ridiculous to me but, then, so does this problem!

    Heidi

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve got 2 WP installs on my dev server and often have both running. Never seen this kind of problem.

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