andrewblizzard

Sorry I’m a bit of a nOOb…how do I do that?

Thanks again. I switched and it didn’t help. Hmmm…

Thanks. I only had one plugin that was active and I deactivated it. I also tried to delete some of the unused plugins and I got the same error. Couldn’t delete any.

I followed the resetting the plugins folder instructions – didn’t help.

Next thing to check is the theme I guess. I am using “platform” (not the Pro) along with a “platform” child theme.

Is there a safe way to switch to Twenty Eleven without losing all my formatting for my current child theme?

Odd areas such as link color, hover color, post color, etc? I think I have found references to changing most of those on the forum so I should be able to find it easily.

Thanks for your advice!!
Andrew

Okay! So I will need to track all the changes I made to the parent theme and duplicate them in the child theme. Shouldn’t take too long.

After I’ve done that and activated the child theme, my site shouldn’t change in appearance at all correct?

Now, when I get that completed, is it simple to change the body text color in the child theme?

If already made a few changes to the twentyten theme unfortunately – custom header, custom background, menu header hidden at the top of each page, website title hidden at top of header image…

Would I need to replicate allof those in the child theme as well?

I tried to create a child theme but it confused me a little. I created a directory called “child” in my theme directory and created a style.css file. When I activated the theme, my site defaulted to the original twentyten look. I assumed that because the child theme imports the style.css from my parent theme that the site shouldn’t change when the child is activated.

I must have been doing something wrong. Here is the code I was using in the style.css I uploaded to the child directory.

/*
Theme Name: childtwentyten
Theme URI: https://mywebsite.com/
Description: Child Theme for Twenty Ten
Author: Andrew
Author URI: https://mywebsite.com/
Template: twentyten
Version: 0.1
*/

@import url(“../twentyten/style.css”);