Duplicator killing off child theme!

Hey dirtytacos,

Checkout this question on the FAQs page I believe it may help or provide some clues about this issue:
-> Browse to: https://lifeinthegrid.com/duplicator-faq
-> Find question: “Why do I get a blank/white screen on my site?”

I have used several child themes on different sites… Not sure if it is the child theme, however its hard to tell sometimes…

Hope that helps!

Hello dirtytacos,

I exactly had the same problem.
Finally the problem was in the child-theme declaration, we wrote the parent theme with a lower-case name.
This was not a problem on a local instance (Windows) but when deployed on a web server with a LINUX OS the child-theme wasn’t recognized.
I hope this will help you.

Thanks xmandrillon!

i had a similar problem,

Though i saw i had a space in my child theme directory name, that did not solve the issue.

i suspected my functions.php had something to do with the problem, so i have changed its name to functions1.php, and now duplicator finishes the scan with no errors, appart the total size warning.

My doubt is why Duplicator is dependant on a theme file’s contents?

Thanks

Duplicator won’t be dependent on a themes file contents, however if a theme was setup in such a way that the logic was bound to a specific location then Duplicator is not going to know how to change/update that content in the theme, so when the site is moved to the new location the logic in the theme could cause the site not to not work, if it wasn’t setup with multiple locations in mind…