Creating a child theme for classified-ads-premium breaks my site

  • Resolved mattcrossette

    (@mattcrossette)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I am trying to create a child theme for the theme “classified-ads-premium” by SEOS. I had the free version and I followed the steps HERE to create a child theme for it. It worked perfectly. I liked the theme and thought I’d buy the premium version, but now that I have, I can’t seem to get the child theme to work. It just breaks my site entirely to the point where I have to re-install wordpress! I changed the “Template” line to reflect the name of the new parent. It installs just fine with no errors but the second I try to activate it the site breaks. I tried deleting the function.php file to see if maybe there was something in there it didn’t like but it still won’t work even with just a basic style.css with no css in it, just a header that has this in it:

    /*
Theme Name: classified ads child
Description: Child theme for classified-ads-premium
Author: Matt Crossette
Author URI: https://seosthemes.com/
Theme URI: https://seosthemes.com/wordpress-theme-classified-ads/
Tags: red, two-columns, left-sidebar, responsive-layout, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments
Version: 1.0.8
License: SEOS Themes
License URI: Classified Ads WordPress Theme Copyright 2015, https://seosthemes.com/
Text Domain: seos-classified-ads
Template: classified-ads-premium
*/

/* ----------------------------------- Basic ----------------------------------- */

    It still doesn’t work. I have made literally zero changes so far to the css or the function.php files other than their headers, and I actually don’t even have the function.php file anymore… I’ll re-add that once I get the theme to just activate. So this is literally the classified-ads-premium by SEOS straight out of the box and then following the instructions in the tutorial mentioned above to create a child theme. Any ideas? Are there some themes that just won’t accept a child theme? Seems odd that it worked so perfectly with the free version and now with the paid version I can’t figure it out.

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