Child theme destroys menu

  • Resolved Madeleinebee

    (@madeleinebee)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi! I’m very new to this process (I just figured out where my FTP was today). This morning I installed a translating plug-in, changed the header, and worked with the background/menu on madeleinebee.com

    It looked decent, but I wanted to do some more customization not available through the godaddy wordpress in-site controls. That’s when I learned how to and decided to make a child theme. I put the child theme in a folder called “twentytwelve child” next to the original twentytwelve folder and activated the child menu in my browser.

    /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child
    Theme URI: https://madeleinebee.com/
    Description: Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
    Author: Maddie
    Author URI: https://madeleinebee.com/my-story/
    Template: twentytwelve child
    Version: 0.1.0
    */
    @import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

    Now, it looks awful! The menu is a list… there’s no header… there’s no background. Nothing. What did I do wrong? Thanks!

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    The “Template” part should hold the theme you are trying to inherit, i.e twentytwelve:

    Template: twentytwelve

    Thread Starter Madeleinebee

    (@madeleinebee)

    My bad, it is. I typed it incorrectly instead of copy and pasting. So, here’s a copy and pasted version:

    /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child
    Theme URI: https://madeleinebee.com/
    Description: Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
    Author: Madeleinebee
    Author URI: https://madeleinebee.com/my-story/
    Template: twentytwelve
    Version: 0.1.0
    */

    @import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

    Same problem is still occurring. Could it be because I made changes to the theme before I made the child theme?

    Thread Starter Madeleinebee

    (@madeleinebee)

    After clicking on the bazillionth forum link I finally found the answer. I had spaces in my folder name. Problem solved. Thanks though, Andrew!

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