Creating child theme

What’s in your style.css file?

You should have created it yourself – is this what you are following?

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes

Okay, cool, so that file should only have this in it:

/*
 Theme Name:   Twenty Thirteen Child
 Template:     twentyfifteen
*/

You can add the other lines if you want – but only the above are mandatory for it to work.

Then you also need a functions.php file – with this in it:

<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );

}

You shouldn’t copy any files to the child theme folder to begin with. Just make a new style.css file and a new functions.php file – put only the code I posted above in each of those files.

Put those two files inside a folder (on your local computer) called twentythirteenchild. Then upload that folder to your server to the themes folder – i.e.

wp-content
    themes
        twentythirteen
        twentyfourteen
        twentythirteenchild - THIS IS YOUR NEW CHILD THEME

Oops, sorry, mis-copied that – YES, definitely change to twentythirteen!

See:

https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using

That’s okay – you can just delete the entire thing using FTP – and then from your Dashboard reinstall the parent twenty thirteen.

Then go back and start over making the child theme on your local computer and upload the new folder to the right place.