Child theme not recognized

  • New to WP, but not totally new to web coding and design. I started building a WP site a week ago. Made lots of changes to style.css and header.php before I began to see online warnings about creating a child theme.

    So I did that. It wasn’t recognized. I have read many explanations here and elsewhere about how easy it is, and tried several edits of the style.css intro that I found online, but nothing seems to work. If I make a change to the child theme and upload it, it’s not recognized. Make the the same change to the parent, and it is.

    My question is: can you make a child theme from a parent theme that has already been extensively edited?

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  • Yes you can do that. You’ve already read about why you shouldn’t modify the parent theme, so I won’t talk about that side of it.

    When you set up the child theme, did you set that as the active theme in your admin area? That’s the most likely problem that I can think of so far.

    Thread Starter adieu

    (@adieu)

    Thanks Michael. I went into themes and, yes, the child theme was there, the little picture was blank. Anyway, I activated it. The screen went white. Not only could I not see my URL but I couldn’t access the dashboard.

    Anyway, I went on my web server and deleted the child theme and everything went back to normal. So I created another child there with only style.css. It shows up in the admin panel, but with a blank picture, so I am afraid to activate it since it might be corrupted.

    Any ideas appreciated.
    Jim

    Thread Starter adieu

    (@adieu)

    So I copied header.php and index.php into the child theme folder, but the photo in admin panel was still blank. So I tried to again activate it and it seems to have activated fine. Thanks for your help. Jim

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