ijmacmurray

That is exactly what I do with Fetch. I’ve tried upload just the style.css file and I tried uploading the entire file folder. When I go to Themes there is no child theme there to upload. Hence my frustration. I don’t what else to do.

First, I never tried installing that route but I have now. Since it wouldn’t allow me to upload the entire folder but only a single file, I uploaded the style.css file. Here is the message I got:
Unpacking the package…
The package could not be installed> PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10): Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

When I click on the Twenty eleven download child theme – it goes straight to my downloads just like everything else I download. There is no screen that comes up like your image indicates “You have chosen to open twenty eleven-child.zip.
The file just goes to my download folder like all downloads do.

Just so you understand me clearly. I clicked your link above and clicked on download Twenty Eleven Child. A folder was downloaded that includes these files: functions.php, pageofposts.php, index.php, screen hot.png, style.css. I used Fetch to download the style.css to my empty twenty eleven-child folder.
Went to my dashboard>Appearance>Themes and no Twenty Eleven Child theme is there to activate.

And it’s not zipped.

Okay do you just want me to upload the style.css file in the folder or all the files?

I did upload the complete file and it was not zipped. It did include several files functions.php, pageofposts.php, index.php, screen hot.png, style.css. I tried uploading all the files and I tried just uploading the style.css. Neither worked.
There are no child themes on my WordPress Appearance>>Themes to delete.
I have a backup.

The file from esmi never came in as zipped.

I’m running the latest version 3.4.1. The transfer was just done a couple of days ago. I didn’t upload the zip folder but the unzipped style.css from her folder.

I just want to give up but I won’t. I’ve successfully made so many changes to the native site before I realized I should have made a child theme, stupid me.
I don’t want to make any further changes until this is settled. Have you looked at my information above and noticed anything that was out of place. No one seemed to have noticed I made two mistakes in the @import url(../twentyeleven/style.css); but I caught them early. Even after the corrections, it still doesn’t work. So I tried esmi’s suggestion – that didn’t work. I don’t know where to go from here.

I did exactly that no changes were made. I downloaded the file exactly as she gave it to me still no results. When I go to the Manage Themes page it’s not there.
Thanks for trying to help but obviously I need more help.

I’ve tried everything. I have all the appropriate files in the file manager
wp-content
themes
twentyeleven
twentyeleven-child

Here is my style.css
`/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
Version: 1.0
Theme URI: https://www2.mgpi.biz
Description: Child theme for Twenty Eleven
Author: Joanne MacMurray
Author URI: https://www.mgpi.biz
Template: twentyeleven
*/
@impot url(..twentyeleven/stlye.css);’

Where is my mistake!!! I’m using Dreamweaver for editing my style.css and Fetch to upload to my theme child.

Oh boy, after so many tries, I got so excited that my child theme showed up in the Manage Theme page that I didn’t check to see how it displayed. It appears the site now has no Twenty Eleven formatting despite that I included the suggested@import url(../twentyeleven/syle.css); . The content is there but no styles.

Help, I feel like such a doob

Now to get back to the horizontal footer menu bar. If I start going into the footer.php template does this also have to be a child function?

I got the child theme installed. I think maybe it was there from the first try but what I missed was:
When I went to the Manage theme page it was already at the top of the page and I missed that the title was changed from the Twenty Eleven theme to the Twenty Eleven Child them. I didn’t have to activated it – it was already there.
Thanks to everyone for your help.