Title: Child Theme Problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Child Theme Problem

 *  [caribsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caribsa/)
 * (@caribsa)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-problem-2/)
 * I made quite a few changes to the GamePress Theme: [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/gamepress](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/gamepress)
 * I just learned about child themes and wanted to move my changes to there. I followed
   these directions here to create it [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * But, I’m getting the bellow errors when I tried to activate it
 *     ```
       Warning: require_once(/home/eazymone/public_html/wp-content/themes/gamepress_child/meta-box/meta-box.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/eazymone/public_html/wp-content/themes/gamepress/functions.php on line 679
   
       Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/eazymone/public_html/wp-content/themes/gamepress_child/meta-box/meta-box.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/eazymone/public_html/wp-content/themes/gamepress/functions.php on line 679
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-problem-2/#post-3214615)
 * Do you have access to the file the error is referring to?
 *  Thread Starter [caribsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caribsa/)
 * (@caribsa)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-problem-2/#post-3214620)
 * Yes I do. But I don’t think I understand the child theme. I thought the only 
   thing I needed to add was a style.css and everything else would be inherited 
   from the parent theme. But it seems with the activation of the child theme, it
   just created a new style.
 *  [q292u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/q292u/)
 * (@q292u)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-problem-2/#post-3214727)
 * You need to move any php files you edited in your original into the child theme
   folder, eg footer.php, index.php or whatever.
    These versions will override the
   Gamepress ones.
 * I use child themes based on gamepress on several sites, it’s very flexible and
   being a child theme, I can upgrade the underlying (gamepress) theme without losing
   my changes. Result!

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [q292u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/q292u/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-problem-2/#post-3214727)
 * Status: not resolved

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