Title: problem while making child theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# problem while making child theme

 *  [victoria_mr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victoria_mr/)
 * (@victoria_mr)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-while-making-child-theme/)
 * Hello..
 * I recently learnt about the Theme_Frameworks technology that uses child-themes
   in order to avoid future problems.
    So, i am trying to make a child theme by 
   myself and use it without worrying about losing my changes when the parent theme
   is updated, since the changes are in the child theme. Check this url: [http://op111.net/53](http://op111.net/53)
 * I did all steps indicated in this page but when i reached on step7 that i had
   to activate my child theme i faced a problem:
    In the administrator panel, the
   theme i created does not appear since there is a warning saying that for each
   theme there must be at least a stylesheet and a prototype file (translation from
   greek – i hope you know what i mean – i thought it meant the index.php file ???)
   I think everything is ok with the style.css file (according to the page indicated
   above) but what about the other one? Which is this file?
 * Please tell me if there is something that i’m doing wrong or if there is something
   else that i have to do, so that the theme can be recognised in the administrator
   panel.
 * Note (that may be important):
    I work topically in my pc and the child-theme 
   is situated in a folder (named “kid”) URI /wp-contents/themes/ and contains the
   style.css file.
 * Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [Christian Schenk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chschenk/)
 * (@chschenk)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-while-making-child-theme/#post-1118603)
 * I’ve just tried to reproduce this and the error message is:
 * > The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet
   > and a template.
 * This happens because the parent theme you specified in the header of the file(`
   style.css`) after the line saying `Template` doesn’t exist in your theme folder.
   Of course, to create a child theme you need a parent theme.
 * Upload a theme you’d like to create a child theme for, e.g. [Arclite](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arclite),
   and change the line to, say, `Template: arclite`.

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## Tags

 * [administrator panel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administrator-panel/)
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [theme frameworks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-frameworks/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Christian Schenk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chschenk/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-while-making-child-theme/#post-1118603)
 * Status: not resolved

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