Can't see second child theme

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    (@steve-kelsey)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi-I hope you someone can help.
    I have been using the child theme method and have produced a child theme (tentytencosmos) based on he excellent twentyten which works well.
    I have created a second child theme with a new and different title (tentytenmockery) and this does not appear in the theme section of Admin,all I can see is the twentytencosmos theme along with the twentyten parent theme.
    I have deleted the first attempt at the twentytenmockery folder and rebuilt it with a functions.php file and a style.css file inside which is populated with the same code as the twentytencosmos child theme but still no joy.
    I have looked to the Superadmin folder to activate the themes but although i can see the first child theme, twentytencosmos,the twentytenmockery child theme is not listed.

    Hope you can help

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  • have you changed the style.css and put the new theme name into it?
    is it all uploaded?
    have you checked with ftp or cpanel if the new theme is in its own folder where you would expect it?

    folder structure:

    /wp-content/themes/

 -- twentyten
 ---- style.css (of twentyten)
 ---- templatefiles

 -- tentytencosmos
 ---- style.css (of ...cosmos)
 ---- template files

 -- tentytenmockery
 ---- style.css (of ...mockery)
 ---- functions.php

    can you add other themes, that are not child themes of twentyten, to your site?

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    (@steve-kelsey)

    Hi,thank you for the reply.

    I can see both of the child themes in the cpanel of bluehost.
    Both contain a style.css and a functions.php file viewable and the content of both files can be seen via cpanel file viewer.

    You note above describes what I can see from cpanel.

    I can only see one child theme in WP

    Bit of a poser!

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    (@steve-kelsey)

    I meant ‘your note’ sorry!

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    (@steve-kelsey)

    OK-Now I am really puzzled

    I tried rebuilding the child themes by deleting the old twentytenmockery child theme and,via a temp file in the cpanel copied the twentytencosmos child theme that works into a temp folder,renamed it as twentytenmockery.
    I then moved it into the /wp-content/themes/ folder.

    The cpanel shows me the directory structure I would expect to see

    within /wp-content/themes/ I have two folders,one twentytencosmos and one twentytenmockery

    but, WP does appear to be a little confused

    I can now see two versions of the twentyten child themes which is a step forward but both are caller twetytencosmos- not twentytencosmos and twentytenmockery i.e. different to cpanel

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    (@steve-kelsey)

    OK- Like most things it turned out to be easy.

    The WP v cpanel issue was because I had not changed the style.css files to rename the introductory text. WordPress appears to scan the style.css file to extract the information it needs to present in the theme admin page in WordPress.

    I still don’t know why the first versions of the child theme folders could not be seen-but they can now.

    I hope this helps someone else in the future.

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