How to make a WordPress Child Theme – Twentytwelve theme
September 26th, 2013 by admin
http://www.w3newbie.com/ In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a WordPress child theme. The theme used in this example is the default “twentytwelve th…
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September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Private message me with all that’s? included in your styledotcss sheet! I’m thinking there is still a problem with it.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Hi Drew,
Thanks for your reply -appreciate it!
Yes, I’m getting the message in the Themes section of the dashboard:
Themes, Manage Themes
Current Theme
Organic Shop Child
Child theme for the Organic Shop theme
(((This child theme requires its? parent theme, Organic Shop.)))
I can see the parent theme among Available Themes.
Not sure what you mean by: “… and go ahead and make a css change with the child theme to see if it works.” Is that info in any of your videos?
thnx again!
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
I’m curious where your getting this message? In the themes section of dashboard?
As long as the child theme info is correct, it might just be something WordPress say by default for child themes but I’d make sure the parent theme folder is still intact in wp-content/themes/…? and go ahead and make a css change with the child theme to see if it works.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Ok, looks like I began celebrating prematurely.
I made ‘some’ progress, but clearly, I’m still doing something wrong, because now that my child theme is the current theme, I get this message: (((This Child Theme? requires its parent theme, Organic Shop.)))
Thanks,
Confused!
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Right on!!! It was a missing _ (underscore) in the Template name.
Being a two-word name, the Template name in the directory had an underscore, and I hadn’t add that in the ‘Editor Comment’.
Amazing how something that little can affect the whole process. Apparently it wasn’t? that ‘little’ after all.
Thanks so much for all of your help -appreciate it.
(Now, back to your video, to activate the Child Theme.)
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Hey thanks for the comment. This has to do with the information at the top of your styledotcss child sheet. It’s probably? lacking some info in there or the parent theme is spelled incorrectly, maybe in the @ section, or something of this nature. I’d try adding or changing some of it and re-upload the child theme.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Hey Drew, thanks for the great video. Very helpful.
I used your video to create a? Child Theme, and this is the message I get in my WP Dashboard. “The parent theme is missing. Please install the “organic shop” parent theme.”
But I’ve already installed the Parent Theme! It’s RIGHT THERE in my dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes (it’s my “Current Theme”).
Any idea why this is happening?
Thanking you in advance!
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Rather, (second response)? deleting css or not including some in a child theme wont make a difference because WordPress assumes anything unchanged or not mentioned will remain the same in the style sheet. Hope this makes sense.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
The host you use for FileZilla depending on your hosting company, for example Blue Host uses ftp.(yourdomain. com) and for godaddy it’s the ip address of your website. For your user name and password, you have to set up and FTP user with your host. Let me know if you need help as I’ve used several hosting companies.
Where did you paste the altered style.css? file?
I would only advise doing it with a child theme and you have to use “display : none;” because you can’t delete css in a child theme.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
So I have a few problems. One: I forgot how to connect with FileZilla. What is the host and which username do I use? Two: I instead copied the entire style.css? and pasted it. I then removed the code about the entry header and changed it as you did. Removing that header is my overall goal. After I did it, there was no change at all. Any suggestions?
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Your welcome Alex!
The reason I’d recommend using a child theme rather than editing the files in the ‘editor’ section of wordpress is because once you get into? editing files other than style.css, it is very easy to put in a snippet of code that will offset the entire theme and make wordpress not display at all. It’s much easier to have a backup copy of your wordpress theme’s files and replace the one file with it’s original via FTP (attempt again) than delete your installation if it gets there.
September 26th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Thanks! That was straightforward, easy to follow and very helpful. Any thoughts on why the editor? within WordPress admin is less preferable than file changes on desktop?