Can't get twentytwelve child theme to work

I’ve just created a Twenty Twelve child theme and it worked just fine.

Hmmm, not sure what the problem is then, or what I’m missing. I’ve cleared my cache, and done the exact same thing with my twentyeleven theme.

/*
Theme Name:Twenty Twelve Child
Version: 1.0
Template: twentytwelve
License: GNU General Public License v2
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/

Thanks Esmi,

I’ve tested with the twentyten child theme as well, and it workded fine. And I just tried the above and added the import style.css and still didn’t work for twentytwelve.

Can you recognize any mistakes I’m making? tests for both twentyeleven and twentyten work this way.

Frustration is building.

Thanks

Nothing is jumping off the page at me. If it helps, you can download the child theme I just put together from Quirm.net. See if that works for you.

Thanks Esmi!

Just tried it……..but it’s not working. I’m going to go for a run before I accidentally throw my computer out the window. I’ll check out every detail and see what if I can find the issue and let you know. Argh.

Thanks for the help.

Hmm… then it sounds like you might have a server problem. Have you checked your server’s error logs for clues?

I’ve checked the error logs on my cpanel and there is nothing there. Understandable since I haven’t even started on my site because I want the child theme. Very strange. I can’t figure out what the issue is.

can you actually activate the child theme?

and does it respond if you add your own css into style.css of the child theme?

ps:
if you can activate the child theme, could you leave it activated until someone had the chance to check (with Firebug or similar) how it appears and if it includes the stylesheets?

Try turning debug on and enabling error logging.

I can activate the twentytwelve child theme but it results in no parent theme style, and if I add code from another website through “inspect element” as a test, nothing happens either. I’ve done the same thing to confirm this test with other child themes and it works fine, so I know it’s not the code copy I’m using.

Esmi, apologies but I am very new to this. I’ve taken example code from “enabling error logging” but see no changes.

Ay carumba.

Is this using the theme copy that I uploaded yesterday?

Sure is. (thanks again, btw)

Cleared cache, switched themes, uploaded my style.css, tried yours again, created other child themes(and worked), etc.

It’s only an issue with twentytwelve.

thanks for temporarily having the child theme activated;

the style.css (and all of the other files from esmi’s download) of the child theme seem to be non existant – calling them directly gives a ‘file not found’ error;

how did you install the child theme?

have you checked the themes folder /wp-content/themes/ per ftp or file management system of your hoster for the right location of the theme files?

Yeah, using cyberduck I’ve created a twentytwelve child folder under the website’s content folder, and again under themes. I’ve since downloaded the style.css file to confirm it was there, and verbatim of was Esmi so graciously sent me.

The child theme is recognized in my theme section of my dashboard but no style is included.

I hope it’s me doing something I can correct and not some weird anomaly like Neo in the Matrix.