child theme problem!

  • Resolved Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I always seem to have trouble with creating child themes!

    I have chosen to use the InfoWay theme..

    I have created a folder called infoway-child, and created a style.css file. with the following code :

    /*
    Theme Name: InfoWay child
    Theme URI: http://londubhwhistle.ie
    Description: Custom build Child theme
    Author: Kate O’Dwyer
    Author URI: http://www.kateodwyer.com
    Template: infoway

    */

    @import url(“../infoway/style.css”);

    I canot activate it as it does not show up on the wordpress – appearance page!

    Does anyone know what i’m doing wrong?

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Is the child theme folder in the themes folder, NOT in the parent theme folder?

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi WPyogi,

    Yes it’s in, wp-content -> themes -> infoway-child

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Try removing the hyphen in the name – sometimes that makes a difference.

    Also, how did you make the style.css file – in a text editor and uploaded via FTP?

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I will remove the hyphen,

    Its showing up now on the appearance page, but says style sheet missing !!

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    sorry forgot to mention, yes i created the file in dreamweraver and uploaded via FTP!

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Oh my god!!

    I had a typo! i mis spelt ‘style’ i has sytle.css instead!!

    Problem solved!! Its showing up for me know..

    thanks for your replies!!

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    LOL! Well, that’s a good one! Glad you caught it before you pulled out any more hair!

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Loks like i’m not out of the woods yet! I just activated my theme and now all i’m getting is a white screen.. cant even log into the admin panel!!

    I think now that i activated my child theme as a main theme..how can i fix this??

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Yikes! Just use FTP to change then name on the child theme-that forces WP to use the default theme and you should be able to login.

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    just decided to delete the child theme folder all together, and now i get a – Error occurred: 404 – not found 🙁

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I have logged in now!! Thank god..

    I will try and upload the child theme again..

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    still no good, I havn’t a clue what is wrong with my child theme…

    I have a folder in themes called infoway-child, in this i have my style.css file

    /*
    Theme Name: InfoWay child
    Theme URI: http://londubhwhistle.ie
    Description: Custom build Child theme
    Author: Kate O’Dwyer
    Author URI: http://www.kateodwyer.com
    Template: infoway

    */

    @import url(“../infoway/style.css”);

    I have uploaded this file to the server via FTP, into the themes folder, where the main parent folder called infoway is also..

    Any solution??

    Krishna

    (@1nexus)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Can you see the child theme among your installed themes? If so try activating it.

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    for some reason It’s listed under available themes! I did try and activate it earlier on and was left with a bank screen..

    The WordPress Theme is called InfoWay, but the folder its stored in on the remote server is called infoway, am i correct in using this lowercase name for the import?

    @import url(“../infoway/style.css”);

    Another question is: in my local root folder there is NO folder called infoway, i created a folder called infoway-child, should i go and created a folder called infoway also?

    Thread Starter Kittykat12

    (@kittykat12)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Underneath available themes it now says This child theme requires its parent theme, InfoWay.

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