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Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points
Posted by Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points

Trying to upload custom theme in WP, but it's searching for it's "parent theme."

I've created a new custom theme, based off the lessons in Bootstrap to WP.

This is my error:

This theme is broken. The parent theme is missing. Please install the "angelinamarie" parent theme.

My "angelinamarie" theme is new, not a child of a different theme. I'm not sure why WP is looking for a parent theme.

Has anyone else come across this? And what can I do to make sure WP is reading my files correctly?

4 Answers

rosinapissaco
rosinapissaco
13,401 Points
rosinapissaco
rosinapissaco
13,401 Points

Did you active a child theme with no parent in the theme options?

Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points
Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points

I didn't activate a child theme. It is a new custom theme. That's my issue - I don't know why it is looking for a parent theme when there is not one.

rosinapissaco
rosinapissaco
13,401 Points
rosinapissaco
rosinapissaco
13,401 Points

Maybe in the stylesheet of your theme it says it is a child-theme? Did you check in style.css that the commented section doesn't look like a child-theme? In this video you will see how the commented section of a child-theme looks like: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-a-website-with-wordpress/customizing-wordpress-themes/how-to-make-child-themes Maybe in your style.css you have the same Template name as another theme in your themes folder and it is taking it as a parent?

Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points
Angelina Bethoney
Angelina Bethoney
117 Points

This is the commented out section of my code:

/* Theme Name: Angelina Marie Theme URI: http://angelina-marie.com/ Description: Angelina Marie Website Author: Angelina Marie Author URI: http://angelina-marie.com/ Template: angelina marie Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready Text Domain: angelinamarie/domain */

I don't see where it would look like a child theme...