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Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points
Over write child theme

Posted January 17, 2015 9:53pm by Debby Beachy

Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points
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Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points
Do I copy the whole CSS folder into my child theme, or do I open the css folder and copy the files inside?

Posted January 16, 2015 10:15pm by Debby Beachy

Debby Beachy
Courses Plus Student 2,096 Points
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Tom Rayner
172 Points
What software is being used to open the CSS file? My mac defaults to opening with Safari...

Posted January 15, 2015 1:23pm by Tom Rayner

Tom Rayner
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shira haran
Courses Plus Student 361 Points
where do i copy the "syle.css" from?

Posted January 9, 2015 2:52pm by shira haran

shira haran
Courses Plus Student 361 Points
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shira haran
Courses Plus Student 361 Points
this is the first time i hear about the fillezille software... did i miss a video? how do i connect it to my host?

Posted January 6, 2015 6:48pm by shira haran

shira haran
Courses Plus Student 361 Points
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Neysha Bauer
180 Points
Filezilla vs. 1 Click Download

Posted December 17, 2014 7:16am by Neysha Bauer

Neysha Bauer
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Patrick Skinner
1,943 Points
"The parent theme is missing. Please install the "Parent theme name - twentythirteen in your case" parent theme."

Posted December 14, 2014 2:11am by Patrick Skinner

Patrick Skinner
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Ethan Ostrow
520 Points
After doing all the steps and activating theme, site still looks like previous theme.

Posted December 11, 2014 5:09pm by Ethan Ostrow

Ethan Ostrow
520 Points
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Dawn Foster
1,899 Points
Child Theme won't show images in the media library

Posted December 5, 2014 3:55pm by Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster
1,899 Points
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Mandeep Bhasin
1,475 Points
After activating my Child Theme, my website CSS does not work properly anymore. It is mest up, shows only the HTML!

Posted December 4, 2014 9:13am by Mandeep Bhasin

Mandeep Bhasin
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Dawn Foster
1,899 Points
Files needed to Create a Child Theme

Posted December 3, 2014 2:27pm by Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster
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Sophie Masters
78 Points
My childthem shows up in my back-office under 'Broken Themes' and says the template is missing. How do I repair this?

Posted December 1, 2014 8:48pm by Sophie Masters

Sophie Masters
78 Points
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Sophie Masters
78 Points
Hi, I have tried this a few times, but can't get it to work.

Posted December 1, 2014 8:38pm by Sophie Masters

Sophie Masters
78 Points
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Zach Elkins
9,602 Points
Had to pull over index.php file as well in order for it to load to my WP cp.

Posted November 28, 2014 6:58pm by Zach Elkins

Zach Elkins
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Tim Crow
1,251 Points
Child theme not showing Css (looks different to parent theme)

Posted November 27, 2014 9:25am by Tim Crow

Tim Crow
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Hector F.
27,464 Points
can this procedure be done with all the themes? I'm having problems with one of my websites :S It breaks it.

Posted November 20, 2014 8:51am by Hector F.

Hector F.
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Nathan McNiece
8,590 Points
How to create a style.css for child theme?

Posted November 19, 2014 6:30am by Nathan McNiece

Nathan McNiece
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Aimee Sanford
991 Points
Can't find local site files, used one-click install.

Posted November 16, 2014 3:53am by Aimee Sanford

Aimee Sanford
991 Points
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Ron Gootman
24,409 Points
uploaded the themechild via FileZilla but still cant find the themechild in the wordpress admin area (under the themes)

Posted November 5, 2014 6:44pm by Ron Gootman

Ron Gootman
24,409 Points
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Zackery Cimini
51 Points
I created the child folder....I don't see a step on how to copy the CSS to that folder

Posted November 3, 2014 11:03pm by Zackery Cimini

Zackery Cimini
51 Points
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Joe Morello
1,734 Points
When activate child theme, my columns no fuction...what's happend? i buy a StudioGenesis

Posted October 29, 2014 3:07am by Joe Morello

Joe Morello
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sandis
10,738 Points
I do not see any changes on my site? Something is wrong?

Posted October 20, 2014 5:16am by sandis

sandis
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Alan Williams
5,840 Points
How to set up child theme retrospectively

Posted October 7, 2014 7:54pm by Alan Williams

Alan Williams
5,840 Points
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Lisa McKenna
165 Points
Theme updates: what to do when the developer adds something you'd like to incorporate into your child theme?

Posted October 3, 2014 5:29pm by Lisa McKenna

Lisa McKenna
165 Points
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loiclebunetel
4,184 Points
Is it normal if i don't have the child theme write across the png like on the video ?

Posted October 3, 2014 1:15pm by loiclebunetel

loiclebunetel
4,184 Points
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Sarah Lowry
398 Points
the css file given to download, what should we know in order to create a child theme on our own ?

Posted September 30, 2014 7:37pm by Sarah Lowry

Sarah Lowry
398 Points
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Gina Bégin
Courses Plus Student 8,613 Points
FTP Software? (from "How to Make Child Themes")

Posted September 27, 2014 6:40pm by Gina Bégin

Gina Bégin
Courses Plus Student 8,613 Points
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William Albertson
5,210 Points
How to use the @import function in CSS?

Posted September 10, 2014 11:37pm by William Albertson

William Albertson
5,210 Points
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Adel Hameed
3,427 Points
How create a child theme with my own domain

Posted September 9, 2014 4:37am by Adel Hameed

Adel Hameed
3,427 Points
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Unsubscribed User
119 Points
I am trying to make a child theme, but my active theme from WordPress is not listed in my local files?

Posted September 4, 2014 8:41pm by Unsubscribed User

Unsubscribed User
119 Points
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