What is in the header of your stylesheet (i.e. the first section with theme name, template, etc.)
I think this is where I messed up. ( I use godaddy hosting ) here is what I did.
I created a new directory under themes and named it twentyelevenchild.
Within in it I created a style.css ( when clicking the folder thats all thats in it )
I then zipped it and thats when I got the upload error.
My guess is I created the theme folder totally wrong.
Yes, the top of the page MUST look like this (obviously change in info that is specific to your theme:
`
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Your name here
Author URI: http://example.com/about/
Template: twentyeleven
Version: 0.1.0
*/
‘
See this page for more details:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
ok I did what you said and it allowed me to successfully upload it and I activated it and now the format is out of whack. I fixed my custom header but now there is a Main Menu link and I had 2 pages ( Photo Gallery/Video Vault ) which are now blue links whereas prior they were lined up under the header. Again something stupid I did I’m sure lol. Thank you for your patience with me and help.
gianluca.mobi is the site
Luckily I have not started the real build so it’s not like I am going to lose anything I cant redo. The main reason I did the child theme was to remove the text headers that are automatically displayed when creating a new page.
It looks like you copied the “backticks” (these ` — above and below the commented text) into the stylesheet — so try removing those.
yeah I never removed those backticks and did so and now get this error…ugh
Destination folder already exists. /home/content/71/9458671/html/wp-content/themes/ChildTwentyEleven/
Theme install failed.
just deleted the uploaded childtheme that was there and reuploaded the new one minus the backticks and same issue format was when I preview it.
