Title: Create a child theme
Last modified: April 25, 2018

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# Create a child theme

 *  Resolved [Mago7891](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mago7891/)
 * (@mago7891)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/)
 * I have tried to make a child theme like the tutorial you have written but it 
   doesn’t work.
 * The system gives me an error:
    The following themes are installed but incomplete.
   Name Description Twenty Seventeen-child Template is missing. Standalone themes
   need to have a index.php template file. Child themes need to have a Template 
   header in the style.css stylesheet.
 * What can I do about it ?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcreate-a-child-theme%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Srikanthjaladi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikanthjaladi/)
 * (@srikanthjaladi)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10217298)
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: Your Theme Name
       Theme URI: You Site URI
       Author: the WordPress team
       Author URI: Author URI
       Version: version number
       License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
       License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
   
       This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL.
   
       */
       ```
   
 * **Copy and paste the above code into your style.css, it will create your custom
   theme.**
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [Srikanthjaladi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikanthjaladi/).
 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10217314)
 * Those instructions have always worked for me.
    Could you post your “style.css”
   file here.
 *  Thread Starter [Mago7891](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mago7891/)
 * (@mago7891)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10218102)
 * That’s the CSS:
 * /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Seventeen-child Text Domain: twentyseventeen */
 * // This [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) line loads the
   stylesheet from the parent theme
    [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“../twentyseventeen/style.css”);
 * // Now we can override styles from the parent theme…
    body { background: #eeeeee;}
 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10218219)
 * A child theme’s `style.css` needs to contain a `Template:` line that contains
   the name of the folder where the parent theme is located:
 *     ```
       Theme Name: Twenty Seventeen-child
       Text Domain: twentyseventeen
       Template: twentyseventeen
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Mago7891](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mago7891/)
 * (@mago7891)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10218243)
 * Thanks a lot

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 * Last reply from: [Mago7891](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mago7891/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-child-theme/#post-10218243)
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