Adding a Footer Navigation Menu Bar to Twenty Eleven

I just want to give up but I won’t. I’ve successfully made so many changes to the native site before I realized I should have made a child theme, stupid me.
I don’t want to make any further changes until this is settled. Have you looked at my information above and noticed anything that was out of place. No one seemed to have noticed I made two mistakes in the @import url(../twentyeleven/style.css); but I caught them early. Even after the corrections, it still doesn’t work. So I tried esmi’s suggestion – that didn’t work. I don’t know where to go from here.

I’m running the latest version 3.4.1. The transfer was just done a couple of days ago. I didn’t upload the zip folder but the unzipped style.css from her folder.

The file from esmi never came in as zipped.

Upload the whole child zip folder and then activate it.

But before you do that, make sure that you have deleted any child themes from your WordPress Appearance >> Themes ………. just in case any of them are corrupted.

Also make sure that you have a current BACKUP just in case anything happens during this process.

Let me know how you go……

I did upload the complete file and it was not zipped. It did include several files functions.php, pageofposts.php, index.php, screen hot.png, style.css. I tried uploading all the files and I tried just uploading the style.css. Neither worked.
There are no child themes on my WordPress Appearance>>Themes to delete.
I have a backup.

Okay download the zip file again https://quirm.net/themes/twenty-eleven-child/

Upload that zip file and install. This is what I did, I simply downloaded the file to my computer and then uploaded the same zip file to my WordPress and it worked for me.

Try that again please.

Kind regards

Okay do you just want me to upload the style.css file in the folder or all the files?

And it’s not zipped.

Please have a look at this link image

Once you download the zip folder then upload that zip folder to your WordPress theme.

Kind regards

Just so you understand me clearly. I clicked your link above and clicked on download Twenty Eleven Child. A folder was downloaded that includes these files: functions.php, pageofposts.php, index.php, screen hot.png, style.css. I used Fetch to download the style.css to my empty twenty eleven-child folder.
Went to my dashboard>Appearance>Themes and no Twenty Eleven Child theme is there to activate.

When I click on the Twenty eleven download child theme – it goes straight to my downloads just like everything else I download. There is no screen that comes up like your image indicates “You have chosen to open twenty eleven-child.zip.
The file just goes to my download folder like all downloads do.

Once the folder is downloaded like you mentioned above, don’t open or do anything to that folder.

Simply upload that folder to your WordPress Theme through the normal process of uploading a theme……

WordPress >> Appearance >> Themes >> Install Themes >> Upload >> Browse for that folder >> Install Now…>> Activate

Try that and let me know how you go..

Kind regards

There is no screen that comes up like your image indicates "You have chosen to open twenty eleven-child.zip.

It depends on the browser you use. All browsers do the same job in different ways.

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First, I never tried installing that route but I have now. Since it wouldn’t allow me to upload the entire folder but only a single file, I uploaded the style.css file. Here is the message I got:
Unpacking the package…
The package could not be installed> PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10): Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

Okay that is very strange, I was able to upload the whole folder without any issues. Okay we will do it manually for you.

If you have FTP, upload all the files to the twentyeleven-child folder on your server click on this image

Then go into WordPress and activate your child theme.

Kind regards