Problems With Creating A Child Theme TwentyEleven

The style.css is missing or corrupted.

Michael

Hey Mike,

I just did a notepad file and entered this

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Updated
Description: Child Theme For The Twentyeleven theme
Template: twentyeleven
*/

simport url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”):

then I uploaded it the themes area in my cpanel.

When you say its corrupted do you think my actual site is corrupted or jus tthe child theme

Hard it say but it is likely just the style.css

There is a typo in the import line, the s should be a @ and the colon at then end should be a semicolon.

Michael

Hmmm tried that and its still the same problem, can’t figure out what it could be

if you had the @ and ; right as pointed out by Michael, it should work. preview isn’t always perfect either, but i’d give it a go with activate, and if it still doesn’t look right when you go to the actual site, just switch back to the theme you’ve been using.
i’ve done a child theme of twentyeleven. i’m kinda wishing i hadn’t though because twentyeleven does some monnumentally stupid things and so it requires a LOT of redefining to do what you want. on the upside though it does do auto checking for IE6,7,8,9 etc.