markcool

I am back here again with:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home1/markcool/public_html/ivegotahammer/wp-content/themes/calotropis/includes/front.php on line 16

Here’s what I’ve done:

Through ftp I have
1.replaced front.php with a new file copied from a fresh version of Calotropis.
2.Replaced admin folder and includes folder from a newly downloaded version of Calotropis.

My site’s still down, can anyone help?

Is there a way to refresh? I though the changes would take effect as soon as I made the ftp transfers, no?

Thank you,

Mark

Thanks, I’ll check into it.

I finally had a chance to look at this. I’ve been over and over the style css and have not found these terms.

Prior to posting this thread, I combed the style.css for any color codes that were black, and none of them seemed to apply to the headers or the sidebar.

The only ones I could find were for the menu, where black and white are ok.

Thanks for your reply, I still haven’t been there to try it out. Will let you know once I do!

Best,

Mark

I have gotten my child theme running, with the help of member Emil Uzelac, thanks Emil!

As to books, I am discovering that the codex and forums will supply me with all of the learning materials I could want for quite some time, thank you to all who have contributed.

Who says space is the final frontier? From where I sit, WP might be.

The one on my Calotropis 1.4.1 is “featured and line”, which is better, but not a clean list of titles like I’m looking for.

my site: ivegotahammer.com

I think that there is another way to achieve what I want, but I’m leaving this as is for now. There’s always something new to learn and develop with WP!

Yes,it seems to be working fine now.

Now to re-read the child tutorials and see if I can change body and text colors…

Thank you, Emil

11:37, going to bed. Will try again tomorrow.

Sorry Emil,

I don’t know which folder you mean. The only twenty ten child folder I can find is markcoolfolksinger/wp-content/themes/twenty-ten-child, and it’s already hyphenated.

I have gone in through my host’s file manger and through ftp.

Thanks for your patience with this.

Hi Emil,

Thank you again for your help.

I understand what needs to happen, just can’t figure out where I need to do it from. I keep going to my file manager, but it’s already fixed there. I haven’t figured out how to fix the other one that you’re asking about.

I am assuming I’m doing it from the WP dashboard?

Thank you

Here’s the line: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

I have not yet figured out where else I need to eliminate spaces in the twenty ten child name. In my file manager, it’s twenty-ten-child.

Is it in the theme editor, in the style.css file that I need to change this?

OK,

Thank you very much again.

I am so grateful to have some help after toiling on a learning curve. I appreciate you taking a few minutes to share your skill.

I decided I was going to learn to build these sites myself instead of hiring someone. I crashed my other site, ivegotahammer.com, while trying to edit code, and ended up spending a couple of days learning how to use ftp to fix it.

This one is for my music, so I want to create a good feeling space for people to visit, reflective of the style and mood of the folk/ alt-country music I play.

Cheers,

Mark

Oops, I’m an idiot.

The code got garbled in my email and I copied and pasted with #39 @ both ends.

Pasted the code from here and it works perfectly.

I didn’t realize the tutorials were completely literal.

Thank you Emil, I have been on this for hours. It’s fun learning new stuff, but sometimes taxing!

Best,

Mark

Thanks for the response Emil,

I plugged that in, and don’t see any change on the site.

The code below shows in the style.css, and I clicked update file in the theme editor.

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten Child
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Author: Mark Cool
Template: twentyten
*/

/* Import TwentyTen styles */
  @import url('../twentyten/style.css');

What am I missing? Can you tell?

Please forgive me for improperly entering the code. I am marking this one as resolved and posting a 2nd version with code put in according to protocol.