Title: Child theme install problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Child theme install problems

 *  [mduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mduk/)
 * (@mduk)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-install-problems/)
 * I installed twentyeleven has my child theme. I thought I did everything correctly
   however, on my dashboard it says parent theme is missing please install the nest
   parent theme. Not i am new to all this have i missed something here? Below is
   my style.css file i don’t if this is relevant but i thought i show you anyway
   in case i have made an error somewere. Please tell me how i can fix this problem.
 * /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child Theme URI: [http://example.com/](http://example.com/)
   Description: Child theme for twenty eleven theme Author: Mark Author URI: Mark
   Template: twentyeleven Version: 0.1.0 */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../twentyeleven/style.
   css”);
 * #site-title a {
    color: #009900;
 * }

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [david.bailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbailey-1/)
 * (@davidbailey-1)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-install-problems/#post-2651273)
 * The syntax and directory name looks fine. Try reinstalling the Twenty Eleven 
   theme, or look at the theme directory and see if there are any issues there.
 *  Thread Starter [mduk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mduk/)
 * (@mduk)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-install-problems/#post-2651279)
 * I reinstalled the theme David. It did not fix have the same problem. No obvious
   problems in the theme directory. Any other suggestions?
 *  [Boon1319](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boon1319/)
 * (@boon1319)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-install-problems/#post-2651280)
 * I am having the exact same problem but with the shell-lite them.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Child theme install problems’ is closed to new replies.

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Boon1319](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boon1319/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-install-problems/#post-2651280)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics