Error in Green Grunge resulting Child Themes showing up blank in 3.5.1
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I’ve been beating my head against the wall for 6 hours on this problem. Now that I found the solution, I will post here so the next time it occurs, I have a place to go to get the answer…
I installed a brand new WordPress 3.5.1 web site. I installed the Green Grunge Theme version 1. I created a folder wp-content/themes/green-grunge-theme-child. I created the style.css sheet:
/* Theme Name: Green Grunge Child Description: Child theme for the Green Grunge theme Template: green-grunge-theme Version: 0.1.0 */ @import url("../green-grunge-theme/style.css");
When I activated the child theme I got a blank page. So I turned on php error reporting in .htaccess:
# Displaying PHP errors php_flag display_errors on
This gave me the error:
Warning: require_once(/Volumes/MediaAssets/com.fbcmabank/wordpress/wp-content/themes/green-grunge-church-theme-child/extensions/event-post-type.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Volumes/MediaAssets/com.fbcmabank/wordpress/wp-content/themes/green-grunge-church-theme/functions.php on line 400 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/Volumes/MediaAssets/com.fbcmabank/wordpress/wp-content/themes/green-grunge-church-theme-child/extensions/event-post-type.php' (include_path='.:') in /Volumes/MediaAssets/com.fbcmabank/wordpress/wp-content/themes/green-grunge-church-theme/functions.php on line 400
This was the most helpful page during my research:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/theme-desire-child-theme-bug-fix
which says changeget_stylesheet_directory()
toget_template_directory()
in the functions.php file.However, Green Grunge has the variable
STYLESHEETPATH
instead of the function get_stylesheet_directory(). Fortunately, there is something calledTEMPLATEPATH
also in the Green Grunge functions.php file. Thus the solution is to changeSTYLESHEETPATH
toTEMPLATEPATH
.Change:
require_once(STYLESHEETPATH . '/extensions/event-post-type.php');
to:
require_once(TEMPLATEPATH . '/extensions/event-post-type.php');
Rob
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