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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Travis Granger
Travis Granger
2,745 Points

The parent theme is missing. Please install the "THEME_NAME" parent theme.

Can you please explain the importance (implication) of the folder structure setup? My folder structure setup for the parent theme is '.../wp-content/themes/theme_name/theme_name/style.css' and my structure for my child theme is '.../wp-content/themes/theme_name/style.css'. Could this be the reason of why I'm getting the error "The parent theme is missing. Please install the "Flexform" <<i.e. theme name>> parent theme."

The parent theme is installed an active and I have confirmed that the capitalization is correct under "Template". I have also tried changing the folder structure of my child theme to have an extra '/theme_name/' to match the parent theme but this didn't fix the issue. Please help!

Thanks!

1 Answer

Marco Boretto
Marco Boretto
29,821 Points

hey Travis, I think Zac explains it clearly in this video

bye