Title: creating child theme-optional problems?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# creating child theme-optional problems?

 *  [mewrd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mewrd/)
 * (@mewrd)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-child-theme-optional-problems/)
 * I have followed the wordpress codex and still getiing the common error-“The parent
   theme is missing”,where else can the problem be,beside checking again and again
   capital letters ,
    the directories are :gadgdeoo and gadgdeoo-child /* Theme 
   Name: Gadgdeoo Child Template: gadgdeoo Version: 1.0 */ [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“../gadgdeoo/style.css”);

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 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-child-theme-optional-problems/#post-5476486)
 * What program did you create your child theme’s stylesheet in? Open your child
   theme’s stylesheet in a plain-text editor and see if anything was inadvertently
   added to the ends of the lines.

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