niaskywalk

Thank you for your response.

I ended up using the post content natively to have it trigger properly.

Thank you @esmi! I downloaded that anyway ??

After searching the WP forums, and finally breaking down to write this help request, I returned to my wordpress site where I needed to make additional adjustments, which took me to the WP editor instead of just adjusting a file and uploading it via FTP. Out of curiosity, and no other real need, I looked at the dropdown menu to show the themes available to edit and I discovered something strange.

I saw that the child theme was coming up as a really long name including all the information in the whole file.

Curious, I looked at the file. It turns out the file was not picking up line breaks. Formerly, I have had this issue with MS Notepad which is why I haven’t used it in years, but I am using Notepad++ which never did that to me before. I returned to my computer, opened the file in a new editor, saved and uploaded it. The line breaks remained this time and the Child Theme is now working.

This is a bizarre issue. I hope this thread will not be deleted because it is just a crazy fluke that others might have issue with. It does not make sense to me why the missing line breaks should break the whole file, but there you have it.

Many thanks to those who WOULD’VE helped if I didn’t resolve the case accidentally.