Setting up child theme for Colorway

  • Resolved alkpurusha

    (@alkpurusha)


    11 years, 12 months ago

    I’m trying to set up a child theme for Colorway. The style.css file is as follows:

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    /*
Theme Name: ColorWay Theme Child Theme
URI: https://www.alkpurusha.net/
Description: Child Theme for ColorWay Theme
Author: Andrew Lawson Kerr
Author URI: https://www.alkpurusha.net/
Template: colorwaytheme
Version: 1.1
*/
@import url("../colorwaytheme/style.css");

    This is what ink themes.com says to include, which is similar to the WordPress guide on child themes.
    The file was sent via FTP to the wp-content/themes/colorwaytheme-childtheme folder at justhost.com. The colorway parent theme also resides in the themes/ folder.
    Within WordPress, I went to Appearance-Themes but the child theme was not there, only the ColorWay parent theme (as well as a twenty eleven theme).

    Am I missing something here, or doing something wrong?

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  • Maybe it was at the bottom as a Broken theme ?

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    It’s your @import and Template that are at fault, they’re pointing to directories that don’t exist.

    Try this instead.

    /*
Theme Name: ColorWay Theme Child Theme
URI: https://www.alkpurusha.net/
Description: Child Theme for ColorWay Theme
Author: Andrew Lawson Kerr
Author URI: https://www.alkpurusha.net/
Template: colorway
Version: 1.1
*/
@import url("../colorway/style.css");

    That should work after you fix those 2 lines.

    Thread Starter alkpurusha

    (@alkpurusha)

    I tried this suggestion and changed the style.css but still the child theme is not there. Also logged off and on, no difference. Any other suggestions?

    No, it’s not listed as a broken theme.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    That’s odd.

    This exists:

    https://www.alkpurusha.net/wp-content/themes/colorway/style.css

    so does this

    https://www.alkpurusha.net/wp-content/themes/colorwaytheme-childtheme/style.css

    But your site at https://www.alkpurusha.net/ is sending me to https://www.alkpurusha.net/Welcome.html probably via a index.html file.

    Am I looking at the correct URL?

    Thread Starter alkpurusha

    (@alkpurusha)

    Yes; here’s the situation. I have an active web site at alkpurusha.net created on iWeb (Mac) which I am hoping to recreate with WordPress. So I was advised to install WordPress at justhost.com in the same root directory as the current site, but in a sub-folder, which i did (alkpurusha.net/WordPress). I am guessing by your puzzlement that I maybe have fluffed this installation and need to redo. Perhaps this is why the child theme isn’t working…

    Thread Starter alkpurusha

    (@alkpurusha)

    This issue is resolved. The style.css file was being sent to an old wp-content folder which should have been uninstalled by WordPress Uninstall. Colorway child theme now works. Thanks for your help.

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