Broken Child Theme

You’ve got this line wrong:

Template:/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen

See the tutorial:

 Template: twentyseventeen

Thanks Andrew

That was how I had it originally and it didn’t work. I have tried it again (with Template: twentyseventeen), and I still get the same error message.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

I still get the same error message

So, it’s worth asking. Is twentyseventeen installed in wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen?

Hi, I’m having this exact same problem, albeit with the parent theme Readly. Readly is definitely installed, but the child theme gets the same “parent theme cannot be found” message. I was working on localhost and it was fine until I moved everything online.

Here’s the beginning CSS of the child theme (sailor.semicool.net):

/*
Theme Name: Readly Child
Theme URI: https://sailor.semicool.net/
Description: Readly Child Theme
Author: Cat
Author URI: https://semicool.net
Template: Readly
Version: 0.0.1
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: light, single-column, minimal
Text Domain: readly-child
*/

@catthehuman, if you need support then per the forum welcome please create your own new forum post. Thanks.

@catthehuman, is the parent them directory “Readly” or “readly”? Case matters.

Thanks! I had everything lowercase originally like the parent directory, and when it didn’t work I tried uppercase, which of course didn’t work. I changed everything back to lowercase like you said. That didn’t fix it but I noticed the parent theme didn’t have a ‘Text Domain:’ in the style.css. I added that with lowercase ‘readly’ and it finally worked…but is editing the parent theme the only way I could’ve done that? I was trying to avoid doing anything to the parent.