[Theme: Untitled]: Getting the "the parent theme is missing."

  • Resolved egsarin

    (@egsarin)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    This is my first time creating a child theme which I am doing from a theme called “Untitled”. My “untitled-child” file has the style.css file and a header.php file.

    The following info is in my style.css file:

    /*
    Theme Name: Untitled Child
    Theme URI: https://betweenparentheses.net/
    Description: Untitled Child Theme
    Author: Automattic
    Author URI: https://theme.wordpress.com/
    Template: untitled
    Version: 1.1.3
    Text Domain: untitled-child
    */

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

    However, I keep getting the following message:

    “The parent theme is missing. Please install the “untitled-theme-name” parent theme.”

    The “Untitled” theme is already installed and is working fine. I want to add a favicon to my site via the child theme (header.php) but I don’t know what I’m missing or adding here.

    I’d greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.

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  • Your @import is suppose to be your parent theme; example twentyfourteen/style.css. This takes first priority over the parent theme with you are not letting WordPress understand what you are modifying.

    “The parent theme is missing. Please install the “untitled-theme-name” parent theme.”

    When I view your child theme’s style.css file, I see this:

    /*
 Theme Name:   Untitled Child
 Theme URI:    https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/untitled/
 Description:  Untitled Child Theme
 Author:       Automattic
 Author URI:   https://theme.wordpress.com/
 Template:     untitled-theme-name
 Version:      1.1.3
 Tags:         A nice bold theme. Features full-bleed featured posts and featured images, a fixed header, and subtle CSS3 transitions.
 Text Domain:  untitled-child
*/

@import url("../untitled/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

    So the value for Template reads “untitled-theme-name” and not “untitled”. Try taking off “theme-name”.

    Thread Starter egsarin

    (@egsarin)

    Weird… that’s not what I have at all from my local host info.

    Just today I installed my live site to a local host. Maybe I did something wrong, because obviously the info I’m putting in is not what is turning out.

    Thread Starter egsarin

    (@egsarin)

    I went directly to the dashboard and made the changes there and it seemed to work. But still, it’s not an ideal situation. I’m new at this, I’ve been working at it for hours and I just don’t have the eyes for it anymore. I think I’m going to bed and will look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.

    Thread Starter egsarin

    (@egsarin)

    Solved it.

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