New – Child Theme Blows Everything Out of Proportion.

  • Resolved JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    [topic title moderated – no topic is more urgent then any other in this volunteer supported forum]

    Hello

    If re-posting this causes anyone any problem, I apologize in advance but the thing is I am launching my website in less than three days and my child theme has gone bust.

    If you have already read the following message that I posted yesterday, please note that I have left the (problem) child theme activated and you can witness the problem on septillions.com.

    If this is the first time you are reading my post, below is the CTRL-C CTRL-V version. Oh, and if you need the see the screenshots, here is the problem Here is the link to the screenshot: https://tinypic.com/r/531ezt/8 and here is how it should be: https://tinypic.com/r/othf6p/8

    Original Message Follows:

    Hello

    I am launching my website on April 23. I bought a theme few weeks ago and have been customizing it offline using server press until I was satisfied. Then I got hosting yesterday and set up everything. I felt it would take me minutes to set everything up. Boy, was I wrong!

    I have done all the customization using the child theme. When I view it using ‘View Site’ function, the fonts and everything else blows out of proportion and when I scroll down, the page ends halfway through. As if the page size is the same but since everything is way too large, I can’t see the remaining content.

    When I activate parent theme, everything appears ok. But when I activate the child theme ….. This is frustrating.

    My guess is that I may not have configured / installed the child theme properly but if that was the case, it wouldn’t have been detected in the first place. My guess is strengthened by the fact that initially WordPress couldn’t detect it and then I had to change the following line in style.css

    Template: Upstart

    to

    Template: upstart

    basically changing the name to lower case. Then, the theme was detected and I was able to activate it.

    Right now my style.css looks like this:

    /*
    Theme Name: Upstart Child
    Theme URI: https://septillions.com/Upstart-child/
    Description: Upstart Child Theme
    Author: Jawwad Daud
    Author URI: https://septillions.com
    Template: upstart
    Version: 1.0.0
    Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
    Text Domain: Upstart-child
    */

    @import url(“../Upstart/style.css”);

    /* =Theme customization starts here
    ————————————————————– */

    I have put a countdown timer on my website. As I write these lines, it says 4 Days 0 Hours, 59 Minutes, 0 Seconds.

    Am I not justified in freaking out?!?

    Thanks.

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  • Check your child theme’s style.css. Lines 13 and 14 are:

    @import url("../Upstart/style.css");
@import url("../Upstart/custom.css");

    But it looks like they should be:

    @import url("../upstart/style.css");
@import url("../upstart/custom.css");

    Note the lowercase u.

    to start with, try to correct the capitalization of the parent theme path in style.css of the child theme;

    @import url("../upstart/style.css");
@import url("../upstart/custom.css");

    not sure is you need the second line at all (?)

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    You guys are geniuses (I could barely stop myself from going all-caps there with ‘geniuses’!)

    My problem has been solved. I’ll leave it on for a while longer so you can see.

    What a small oversight and what a great pain that was!

    Thank-you thank-you thank-you.

    stephencottontail and alchymyth you are both too kind.

    Oh, and alchymyth; I used the second line because I was having some trouble during offline customization. I thought that addition fixed it.

    Thread Starter JadeDade

    (@jawwad-daud)

    I love you all. Thank you.

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