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Rev. Voodoo is right. You cannot copy the entire theme as a child theme.

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Krishna: I don’t see anything on that page specifically explaining how to save a current theme as a child theme. Can you point me to which section you’re referring to?

Rev. Voodoo: Okay, so you’re saying that copying or moving over files wont work and could actually cause the site to crash. Do I have any options at all to save the work I have already done on my site?

Thanks for your help. So this is somehow possible and I wont lose all of my work, great! I’m still confused though.

I have read the linked page before, read it again and think I understand the basic idea of creating a child theme from scratch.. but what I would like to do is basically copy everything I currently have in the parent and put it into the child theme, then do a fresh install of Twenty Eleven. Not sure what I’m missing, but I don’t see any mention of or instructions on how to do this. All I’m seeing are instructions on how to create new files from scratch in the child directory.

At this point I have created the directory “twentyeleven-child_theme”. Is it now just a matter of inside cPanel moving ALL files from the current parent theme directory over to the new child directory and then install a fresh Twenty Eleven theme inside WP dashboard to replace the missing (moved) files and act as the new parent? If so, do I then need to rename or add anything else into the child directory or is it all ready to go? Confusing…

Oh wow, okay. Thank you for the links.

According to the validation check I have 5 Errors and 2 warning(s). Not exactly sure how to implement those fixes though. They all show “>” underlined in red, I assume its because I must have left a space in the coding changes and just need to delete the space/or replace those spaces with the “>” or completely replace the lines altogether then?

Then the link you posted says there are six broad fixes listed for IE. I’m wondering if the previous fixes will resolve IE issues or create yet more problems… hmm