unwanted special character in address bar

That would be from the header.php file in your theme at the title tag. Which is at line 17 of the source

<title>Mega.Dope.Beatz |</title>

Do you have any pages or posts?

https://www.megadopebeatz.com

This is the code I found in the header.php but I see a few “|”
which one should I delete?

* Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
*/
global $page, $paged;

wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ );

// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( ‘name’ );

// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( ‘description’, ‘display’ );
if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
echo ” | $site_description”;

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
echo ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), max( $paged, $page ) );

Do you have any pages or posts?

only the main page is my only page.

What is your front page set to?

it’s a not a parked domain though. it’s the other type of domain. I can’t remember what it’s called, but there are two websites.

sorry i am a noob.

my front page is an actual page. and it is set as the default template?

alright let’s try this:

your child theme folder may not be being recognized by WP due to you naming the child theme Child 2011

it is supposed to be twentyeleven-child

Activate twentyeleven theme, logout, use FTP to rename the child theme folder to above. Login in. Activate child theme.

Report back.

i followed all of the step except I did not activate the child them yet.

it is still named “2011 Child” in my wordpress admin page. although I changed it in FTP

should I activate it anyways?

The theme showing as in use is from the folder 2011 Child…

when I click on appearance > themes

it shows the twenty eleven theme as active
and it says “available themes: 2011 Child, twenty twelve”

and in filezilla under wp-content it says twentyeleven-child and I can not find a folder named 2011 Child now.

it is still named “2011 Child” in my wordpress admin page.

You have to change it in your child theme’s style sheet too.
Try something like this for your child theme:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Version: 1.0
Theme URI: https://www.megadopebeatz.com
Description: A starter child theme for Twenty Eleven
Author: Your name here
Author URI: https://www.megadopebeatz.com
Template: twentyeleven
*/

/* Import layout */

@import url(../twentyeleven/style.css);

i’m just going to fix this when i redesign the site.

i can’t risk the page going down for 3 hours. when i changed the file folder named “2011 Child” to “twentyeleven-child” via FTP, and then logged back into wordpress administration there wasn’t a twentyeleven folder, but the 2011 Child folder was still present. Since the only folder corresponding to twentyeleven-child was 2011 child I attempted to reactivate 2011 Child thinking that it may have just been server lag. For some reason this activated the twentytwelve theme…….. i know the site isn’t much but it took me like 5 days to make. and i don’t know what I am doing. so I am just going to have to roll with the “|” because i will probably just making things worst. thanks for trying to help though.

ohhh…

i will try that, but if that doesn’t work. im seriously afraid to mess it up.