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Hey there @sainkho – looks like there are a number of CSS issues, not just the ones you mentioned.

Did you make CSS changes anywhere besides your child-theme overrides? Since disabling your child theme’s stylesheet in my browser inspector didn’t sort out all the issues I’m seeing, I’m wondering where else you may have made modifications. CSS modifications should normally only be done either in your child theme or in the Customizer’s CSS Editor.

As tests, the first two things I’d recommend doing are:

• Activate the parent Twenty Seventeen child theme. Does the issue persist?
• Is the issue present with all your plugins temporarily deactivated? If the problem goes away, reactivate your plugins one by one (while still in troubleshooting mode) to find the culprit.

Let me know how it goes.

Oh. The answer relies on my dodge memory. I’ll see tomorrow and come back.

This happened while attempting to cludge the CSS for the Events plugin.

But resetting to the Twenty Seventeen is a genius move as a starting point. Thanks!

Okay. Finally got around to it and… seem to have broken it completely. Sad times.

First thing was on the Themes page I had a heading ‘Broken themes’ and the text called out my child by name with this – “The theme defines itself as its parent theme. Please check the Template header.”

I figured to first just to ignore my child and reset to the original Twenty Seventeen but when I hit ‘Activate’ I got, “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

Now in Recovery Mode. ;o)

So when I go into Theme File Editor I have this:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Seventeeeeen Child
Description: Twenty Seventeen/Nineteen Child Theme
Template: twentyseventeen
*/

There’s a problem there?

Bonus question, shouldn’t Twentyseventeen appear under Themes? I mean, there’s my Child but not the parent showing at all.

And I can’t seem to search and find that original Twenty Seventeen theme… Which seems odd.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Sainkho.

So, more poking around – and, yes, that appears to have gotten me in this mess – and I discover, on my host that the style.css in themes/twentyseventeen is in fact that from my child.

I don’t know how I achieved that overwrite but any ideas on how I can get the original parent style.css in place?

Hey @sainkho – one thing you could try is to make sure the styles/code in TwentySeventeen’s stylesheet is correct again.

If you edit /themes/twentyseventeen/style.css you can make copy the correct CSS from https://github.com/WordPress/twentyseventeen/blob/master/style.css and paste it into your own stylesheet.

Could you please give that a try and see how it goes?

Nice. Popping that back in the Twentyseventeen themes folder has got me the site back.

I thank you both for your patience with some pretty obvious and quite stellar user error.

Fantastic news @sainkho – I’m glad that got it sorted. All the best with the site!