Twenty Eleven Child Theme not working

@import url(“public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css”);

That won’t work. But this ought to

/* Import layout */
@import url(../twentyeleven/style.css);

See if that get’s the child theme working for you.

Also, your opening text appears to be missing a forward slash. Should be:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Theme URI: https://hinduismfacts.org
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Rahul
Author URI: https://hinduismfacts.org
Template: twentyeleven
Version: 1.0
*/

Thanx guys for your quick response. I made all the changes suggested by you but still no success. The new code looks like this:

_______________________________________________________

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Theme URI: https://hinduismfacts.org
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Rahul
Author URI: https://hinduismfacts.org
Template: twentyeleven
Version: 1.0
*/

/* Import layout */
@import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”);
__________________________________________

I have tried with and without quotes in the import statement. I tried removing /* Import layout */ statement also.

Hrm. Well, it’s time to use The Pastebin! ??

You’ve probably done this already but just to be complete,
let’s start from scratch:

1 – On your WordPress web server create an empty directory like so wp-content/themes/twentyeleven-child

2 – Visit this Pastebin link https://pastebin.com/d7rJZF5q and click on the download link on that page.

3 – That link will want to save as basic_no_frills_twenty_eleven_child_theme.txt and once it’s saved rename it to just plain style.css

4 – Transfer using FTP (or however you transfer files) the style.css to that new and empty directory wp-content/themes/twentyeleven-child

5 – Visit your WordPress dashboard themes page

https://your-wordpress-url/wp-admin/themes.php

6 – Look for and activate the theme that says

Twenty Eleven Child Theme by Self-Help WordPress User

Now visit your blog. It should look just like Twenty Eleven. Select View Source in your browser. The style.css file should have a line like this in the HTML source.

href="https://your-url-here/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven-child/style.css"

And that should do it. If you need to make any CSS changes, you can make them without fear on wp-content/themes/twentyeleven-child/style.css.

Thanx a lot, it worked. The only problem is, it is showing pages in the header menu as well as sidebar but I want pages to be in the sidebar only. Original theme does not have pages in header. Currently, I have removed pages from sidebar. Do you know how to fix it?

Try visiting https://your-url-here/wp-admin/nav-menus.php and edit the menu there.

I think the menu settings are theme name dependent… when you switched to the new child theme the old navigation menu settings may have been lost.

hello,
I would like to create a child theme to my twentyeleven theme.
I have the same problem that hinduismfacts had, I tried the pastebin process but unfortunately it still doesn’t works for me! When I activate my child theme, there is absolutely no styling on my website!
When I select viewsource in my browser I can find the following code :
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”https://epicurieuse.com/wp-content/themes/twentyelevenchild/style.css&#8221; />
which means, I guess, that the @import function is working?

I tried to reinstall the parent twentyeleven theme, with or without quotes in the @import function, but nothing works… I am really desperate!

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Epicurieuse, Please start your own thread. It’s considered rude to intrude on someone else’s topic, and I’m sure you’ll get assistance on your own thread.

Thanx Jan, it resolved on its own.