Child Theme Not loading Correctly

  • Hi,
    I have a multi-domain hosting account.
    I installed WordPress on 2 sites using Fantastico,then the hosting provider installed Softaculous and I installed WordPress on the third site using it.
    I have 3 sites online.When I try to create the child themes for these sites they don’t work properly.
    According to WordPress rules the child theme should be uploaded to /public_html/wp-content/themes.But when create a new directory for the child theme and put the style.css file there,it doesn’t even show into the site’s dashboard-Appearance-Themes-Installed Themes.
    When I install it into the /public_html/varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com/wp-content/themes(varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com is one of the sites I am trying to install the child theme),it shows in the dashboard.
    But when I Activate it,it doesn’t load the site correctly.The site appears all stretched over the screen etc. etc.
    I have tried this with the themes-“bouquet”and “weaver-ii”.But the result is the same.
    What is the problem with it?Unless I install the child themes correctly I don’t want to customize the sites,as all the changes will be lost once the themes get updated.

    Thanks for reading my problem.Please help me in understanding whats the problem here.

    Thanks a ton for support.

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  • Thread Starter Ambika Poddar

    (@ambika-poddar)

    Now it is working.You can see the site after I activated the child theme esmi provided.
    https://varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com/
    Do I need to create the functions.php file to make the other theme work?

    Thread Starter Ambika Poddar

    (@ambika-poddar)

    Now it is working.You can see the site after I activated the child theme esmi provided.
    https://varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com/
    Do I need to create the functions.php file to make the other theme work?

    @wpyogi,I was putting the child theme in the child folder in the themes folder.

    No. Child themes only really need a style.css file. A functions.php file is only needed if you want to start customising the parent’s functions or adding some of your own.

    Thread Starter Ambika Poddar

    (@ambika-poddar)

    the path was /public_html/wp-content/themes/Twenty twelve-child/twenty-twelve-child
    But then it didn’t show the shild theme in the site dashboard.
    Either I had to install the shild theme from the dashboard or had to put it in the following path;
    /public_html/varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com/wp-content/themes/Twenty twelve-child/twentytwelve-child

    Thread Starter Ambika Poddar

    (@ambika-poddar)

    I created a zip file with the weaver child theme folder into it.And I uploaded it from the dashboard and installed it from there too.
    But the result is not what it should be.
    See it here-
    https://varsha-desserts-n-cakes-classes.com/

    Thread Starter Ambika Poddar

    (@ambika-poddar)

    Hi,
    My problem is solved now.
    I was making a mistake in my style.css file.My style.css file started with */, when it should start with /*

    The first indicates the end of a comment, the second indicates the start of it. All of your tags that name your theme need to be within that comment to work.
    The support at learnwebdevelopment.com noticed it,where I have subscribed to their course.
    I hope it will help people who face similar problem.
    Thank you so much esmi,Krishna and WPyogi for trying to solve my problem.

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