ssguy69

Went into the FTP client to try and move everything into place and still not making much progress. This child theme thing is great in principle but definitely another monster in execution.

A premium theme has been proposed that is supposedly easier to work with.

I’m throwing in the towel and think I’ll start anew.

So I have figured that I’ll move the plugin folder that was previously present prior to the upgrade to wp-content/plugins and delete the new plugin folder that came with the recent upgrade.

Am I on the right track here?

@chip

Thanks for the tough love. I’m going back into the files and will be applying what you’ve said.

Stay tuned and thank you.

Gary

Thanks Kabi.

Still trying to figure out where to place the child theme’s plugin folder in relation to the parent theme’s plugin folder.

@chip

You’re correct but the confusion comes from the following:

I was running certain plugins for my twentyten theme (WP 3.1) prior to upgrading (WP 3.3) and so to make sure I didn’t lose them, I went into my FTP client and placed the previous plugin folder inside the theme folder of my child theme.

Problem is that with the upgrade comes a new plugin folder. I’m trying to go the child theme route and figured it’d be best to save my plugins that were being used prior to the upgrade. So I have two plugin folders (one for parent theme and one for child theme) and not sure where to place the plugins of the child theme.

Still plugging away.

Would appreciate if someone could provide instructions on the file directory hierarchy.

I have the ‘plugins’ folder inside my child theme folder but something tells me it doesn’t belong there. Problem as well is that with the update came a parent theme plugin folder.

Anyone have a few minutes to helping me sort out the mess I’ve created?

Thanks Chip,

I do have it in both files.

How do I resolve it? Do I remove one of them from the themes and if so which theme?

1) Child theme does have a unique name: Twenty ten Child
2) I understand the concept behind child themes

I need assistance in resolving the following message that appears when I attempt to activate the child theme:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare twentyten_page_menu_args() (previously declared in /home/content/93/7359893/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten Child/functions.php:221) in /home/content/93/7359893/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 224

Helllllllppp!!!!

Was able to move things around a bit and this is the message received after going into Admin panel and attempting to activate the child theme:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare twentyten_page_menu_args() (previously declared in /home/content/93/7359893/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten Child/functions.php:221) in /home/content/93/7359893/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 224

So I’m thinking that because the child theme’s function php file gets loaded before the parent’s function php file, there’s something duplicate going on. After reading the Codex it seems so type of correction is need.

But to which file? Parent or Child?

I’m thinking it should be moved out of the Themes folder.

I have one. didn’t create it myself.

Any idea where it came from?

Twentyten theme.

I think with the recent upgrade came a new WP-Content folder.

My previous WP-Content folder with custom files is present. So do I move all its contents into the new WP-Content folder or discard the new WP-Content folder?

Does the actual ‘WP-Content’ folder of the Child theme go inside the Child’s theme folder? I don’t think that is correct. Also because of the upgrade there is another ‘WP-Content’ folder from the parent theme.

Please recall that I’m working with what was a modified parent theme that I’m now trying to change into a child theme. Thus I have 2 WP-Content folders present-one from the upgrade and the previously existing prior to the upgrade. The previous one has custom image files and such in it. Where do I place it in relation to the new parent theme’s WP-Content folder? Do I discard the parent theme’s WP-Content folder?

esmi,

Stay tuned-your feedback and assistance is priceless. Thank you.

In the actual ‘Theme’ folder? If I recall correctly I tried putting the ‘WP-Content’ in the that folder and I received a notification on the Admin panel that said ‘WP-Content’ was a broken theme without a stylesheet?