Title: style.css stylesheet error message
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# style.css stylesheet error message

 *  [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/)
 * I am trying to do a childtheme, followed the instructions and uploaded the .zip
   only to get this error below which I don’t understand. Can someone help me out?
   Thanks!
 * Installing Theme from uploaded file: twentyelevenchild.zip
    Unpacking the package…
 * Installing the theme…
 * The package could not be installed. The style.css stylesheet doesn’t contain 
   a valid theme header.
 * Theme install failed.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830572)
 * What is in the header of your stylesheet (i.e. the first section with theme name,
   template, etc.)
 *  Thread Starter [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830586)
 * 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.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830589)
 * 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/](http://example.com/)
   Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme Author: Your name here Author
   URI: [http://example.com/about/](http://example.com/about/) Template: twentyeleven
   Version: 0.1.0 */ ‘
 * See this page for more details:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 *  Thread Starter [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830611)
 * 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
 *  Thread Starter [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830615)
 * 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.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830647)
 * It looks like you copied the “backticks” (these ` — above and below the commented
   text) into the stylesheet — so try removing those.
 *  Thread Starter [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830686)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [Bernardini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardini/)
 * (@bernardini)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-stylesheet-error-message/#post-2830687)
 * 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.

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