child theme help, 2010

Go to header.php and check your:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="all" />

it should be like that. Now earlier today we talked about the theme folder, let’s keep that without spaces as well, you can use twenty-ten-child, but cannot have twenty ten child as the name of your child theme folder.

Let me know if this makes sense.

Here’s the line: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

I have not yet figured out where else I need to eliminate spaces in the twenty ten child name. In my file manager, it’s twenty-ten-child.

Is it in the theme editor, in the style.css file that I need to change this?

That looks great, what we need to check is the actual folder where your child theme is located.

i.e. the folder for ../twentyten/style.css is set like that.

and your style.css for child is set like

../twenty ten child/style.css see the white space in between this? Let’s make that either ../twentytenchild/style.css or ../twenty-ten- child/style.css

Makes sense?

Emil

Hi Emil,

Thank you again for your help.

I understand what needs to happen, just can’t figure out where I need to do it from. I keep going to my file manager, but it’s already fixed there. I haven’t figured out how to fix the other one that you’re asking about.

I am assuming I’m doing it from the WP dashboard?

Thank you

If you have FTP access simply rename the folder from there. https://www.mediafire.com/?dw1abw5bhg444bz here is the sample file that you can upload via dashboard > templates if you cannot use FTP.

Sorry Emil,

I don’t know which folder you mean. The only twenty ten child folder I can find is markcoolfolksinger/wp-content/themes/twenty-ten-child, and it’s already hyphenated.

I have gone in through my host’s file manger and through ftp.

Thanks for your patience with this.

11:37, going to bed. Will try again tomorrow.

I have plenty of that no worries, let’s fix this puppy up ??

Just want to figure out if the folder was renamed why do we still see

https://www.markcoolfolksinger.com/wp-content/themes/twenty ten child/style.css

instead of https://www.markcoolfolksinger.com/wp-content/themes/twenty ten child/style.css

Oh duh, how stupid from me not to ask. Activate default WordPress theme (TwentyTen) and go back and activate twenty-ten-child once again.

All right, I am around, let me know please.

Yes,it seems to be working fine now.

Now to re-read the child tutorials and see if I can change body and text colors…

Thank you, Emil

you are welcome ??