AlwaysARedhead-Catherine

It will not let me activate it. I saved the footer.php in the twentytwelve-child directory, as per the info above. I did try copying and pasting the style.css into the twentytwelve-child directory but then received the message function template is missing.

I’m unsure what other files to put in the twentytwelve-child directory.

This is the message I receive:

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description
twentytwelve-child Stylesheet is missing.

https://alwaysaredhead.com

I saved the new footer.php file, created the twentytwelve-child directory. After I uploaded the footer.php file to the twentytwelve-child directory, I received the error “stylesheet missing”. I then copied and pasted the style.css file into the twentytwelve-child directory, then received the message “template files missing”.

Should I have included “@import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”); into the footer.php file?

Sorry for posting the same thing twice (I accidentally hit tab). Plus, I save the file as style.css and place it in the twentytwelve child.

Is it necessary to create a child theme, can I not just plop the table in the footer, like so:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer.
 *
 * Contains footer content and the closing of the
 * #main and #page div elements.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Twelve
 * @since Twenty Twelve 1.0
 */
?>
	</div><!-- #main .wrapper -->
	<table>
	<tr><td>image</td>
</tr>
	</table>
	<footer id="colophon" role="contentinfo">
		<div class="site-info">
			<?php do_action( 'twentytwelve_credits' ); ?>
			<a>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a> <strong>
		</div><!-- .site-info -->
	</footer><!-- #colophon -->
</div><!-- #page -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

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But if not, I create a child theme (throw in all the code I have above), save it as footer_table.css,

Okay, I misread it, thank you for that correction.

Also when writing the import line, just put the two dots (..) not the entire path to the style sheet?

Thank you, I will try all your suggestions.

Okay, thank you.