Broken Theme: Template is missing

  • Hello to one and all

    I am attempting to make a child theme of the wColor theme. I have added the following files to my child theme folder:

    style.css
    template.php

    Under Appearance page of my dashboard, the following error message is displaying under the ‘Broken Themes’ notice: Template is missing.

    the code for my template file is as follows:

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Template (Blank)
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
<p>Uses: template.php</p>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

    I don’t understand why this is not working. I am a newbie and googling like crazy to figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you

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  • can’t find your theme.

    where did you download it from?

    what is the content in style.css of your child theme?

    Thread Starter chezshire

    (@chezshire)

    Thank you for looking Alchymyth (nice handle).

    I downloaded the theme from here: https://www.thepremiumthemes.com/wcolor.wordpress.theme.html

    I think i found my problem which is that it was in my child style.css file; I had copied the parent info, but did not update it, so the Theme URI:… and Author URI: were had the same info as the parent. I deleted those lines, changing them to read as follows:

    Theme Name:     Q3-Wcolor (Child)
Theme URI:      http: //example.com/
Description:    Child of wColor Responsive theme
Author:         Your Name Here
Author URI:     sccc.maxworks.org
Template:       q3_wColor
Version:        0.1.1a

    So i have solved my problem, but I dont’ understand why it was a problem. If anyone can explain this to me I would be very grateful.

    Thank you.

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