cannot create childtheme

  • Hi acosmin,
    Greetings.

    I wish to get the same CSS changes on JustWrite that I have been using through childtheme for twentytwelve.

    I don’t know why this is eluding me even after 7 days of trying. With the Web Developer’s “style editor” I can see all the changes on the theme. That means I have all the necessary CSS required for the changes.

    I tried giving a link to this as newstylesheet from header.php.
    I tried to add @import from childtheme style.css to newstylesheet.css.
    I did the above after I tried copying all the CSS in justwritechildtheme style.css without success.

    Obviously I have studied the codex chapter and resource links for childtheme.

    Can you point out what I should be doing or what mistake I am doing?
    This may be elementary for you.
    I will appreciate guidance.

    Regards,
    Ashok Koparday

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  • you name the style sheet in your new child theme newstylesheet.css. It should be named style.css also.

    Your style sheet for child theme should look like this:
    /*
    Theme Name: <<Name of theme>>
    Theme URI: https://www.something.com
    Template: <<name of parent theme >>
    Description: Description of your theme
    Author: [yourname]
    Author URI: https://www.something here
    Version: 0.01
    */
    @import url(“../themename”)

    all this should be saved as style.css

    Thread Starter Dr. Ashok Koparday

    (@drashok)

    Thank you for the reply.
    Yes. Perfectly so. I have style.css in the childtheme as mentioned in the codex. I have been using twentytwelve childtheme for long long time.

    All the beginning lines of the child theme are as per the codex.
    The template name is the parent theme:
    template: justwrite
    and
    @import url (“../justwrite/style.css”)

    and below this are
    /* Additions */

    Yet the changes are not seen.

    In Tools –> Web Developer –> “Style Editor”
    on clicking ‘new’ when I add CSS changes they all get applied.

    I can save this CSS.
    Where do I place this CSS, which I see working in Style Editor?

    I’ll appreciate your guidance.
    Dr. Ashok Koparday

    is the justwrite a theme or a child theme. If it’s a child theme you will not be able to create another child theme from it. You would have to use the twentytwelve as your parent theme.

    A child theme wouldn’t have all the php files in its directory. So you can’t use it to create another child theme.

    You could copy the style sheet from the justwrite theme and just change the theme name. This will give you a starting point.

    OK.. I think this is another misguided child case…

    I found a bug (i believe) in JustWrite’s Functions.php (its very subtle)

    See my post here for the solution… cheers!

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