Title: Fatal error while making child theme
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Fatal error while making child theme

 *  [hsaf1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsaf1/)
 * (@hsaf1)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-making-child-theme/)
 * Hi, I was making a child theme for our site and it died midway through, i cannot
   get on the site or into the admin panel to try and sort this.
 * The site comes up with a fatal error on every page and if i go onto wordpress.
   com it fails to get any information on it too.
 * Can anyone tell me the best way to sort this please?
 * The website is [http://hancockstovesandflues.com](http://hancockstovesandflues.com)

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 *  [Clarion Technologies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarionwpdeveloper/)
 * (@clarionwpdeveloper)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-making-child-theme/#post-7471142)
 * you dont need to copy parent themes functions.php file into child theme instead
   you create new functions.php file for child theme , All the functions written
   in child file will be in addition to parent file.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-making-child-theme/#post-7471142)
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