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Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
20,160 Points
Posted by Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
20,160 Points

Child theme installation>error message

I am getting a "Broken Themes" error message when I try to install a child theme. It says the parent theme is missing. But it doesn't show that is missing in my FTP directory.

Can anyone shed some light onto what I might be doing wrong?

3 Answers

banu babanu
banu babanu
8,152 Points

In your style.css file you must have this line :

Template: the parent theme name

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
20,160 Points
Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
20,160 Points

I was able to get one theme to work, "Customizr". But for some reason I am not able to get another theme to work. It is called "Point". I don't know what else to do. I read a few articles on google.

The only difference I can tell between Customizr and Point is that I installed the parent Customizr through wordpress and I installed the parent Point through FTP.

Other than that I am doing everything the same. And I should add that Point DOES come up, but it does not have all of the styles. It looks all jacked up even though you can see the skeleton of the Point theme is there and the error messages are gone.