Why is this child theme not working!???

  • Resolved jeremyrjohnston

    (@jeremyrjohnston)


    10 years ago

    I’ve been pulling my hair out all day trying to get this child theme to work. I’ve seen all the mistakes listed that could be possible and still don’t see what I’m doing wrong. I even uninstalled and re-installed my parent theme and still nothing. Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated. The parent theme is located at /wp-content/themes/clean-retina in my file manager and my child theme stylesheet looks like so:

    /*
    Theme Name: Clean Retina Child
    Template: clean-retina
    Version: 1.3.8
    */

    @import url(“../clean-retina/style.css”);

    Any ideas? Still getting the message that the parent theme is missing.

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  • zeaks

    (@zeaks)

    Did you upload the parent theme through file manager/ftp or did you install it from Appearance > themes > add new? If you uploaded it yourself, check to make sure the parent theme isn’t in a double folder or anything like that.

    Your child theme code looked fine so I tried it and it works for me.

    Thread Starter jeremyrjohnston

    (@jeremyrjohnston)

    i uploaded the parent theme through the wordpress dashboard with Appearance>Themes>add new

    I really have no idea why it’s not working for me…

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    A shot in the dark, but check to make sure that the hyphens are actually hyphens and not a Unicode hyphen. Also, try to open your child theme’s stylesheet in a plain-text editor and make sure nothing awkward was added to the file.

    Thread Starter jeremyrjohnston

    (@jeremyrjohnston)

    I got it working. Thank you stephencottontail!!! I opened it up in my file manager to view and it had all this weird subtext and symbols written around the information. Can’t believe that was the problem the whole time. Anyway, thanks again!

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