Theme Ignite Child – Broken

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Msg at top of themes screen

The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.

Message at the bottom of Themes screen

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description
ignite Stylesheet is missing.

So you created a child theme of the Ignite theme, you made some changes to the child theme, then your WordPress version got upgraded, and now your child theme is complaining about a missing stylesheet. What happens when you activate the parent Ignite theme?

I didn’t make any changes to my working blog, the WP vers got automatically upgraded and my blog went down.

I don’t have the parent, ignite theme listed in my themes.

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description
ignite Stylesheet is missing. Delete

Where do I go to get a stylesheet & template.
When I go to add theme, (ignite), it says it is already installed.

I wished I had backed this up!!

First, go to your SuperCache plugin and clear the cache on your site. Then deactivate that plugin until you have this sorted out.

Then if you still can’t activate Ignite, use FTP or Cpanel to find your themes folder on the server and delete that theme.

Then you should be able to reinstall it from the Dashboard.

Then see if your child theme can be activated.

Just to clarify WPyogi’s instructions, look for the ignite folder under the WordPress theme’s folder (/wp-content/themes) and delete just that folder (ignite).

Thank you all for your help. I am getting somewhere now.

I have de-activated SuperCache Plugin and deleted Ignite folder & successfully re-installed the Ignite theme. This has activated fine.

The child theme is now activating, but my customization menus etc. have disappeared.

Which file in the old ignite folder will hold my child theme customazation details?

Thanks
Rashid

When I de-activate Ignite-Child, then the side-bar with the menu is showing, but custom child background colour is lost, and when I activate the ignite-child them the side-bar goes missing.

Which file in the old ignite folder will hold my child theme customazation details?

There would be no files in the ignite folder which would hold your customizations. If the theme has any customization options, they would normally be stored in a database table, and would theoretically be available again to the theme once you re-activated it. The only customizations you would have lost would be if you had previously made any changes directly to the ignite files. That’s why you created a child theme. The child theme should have all of the customizations you did to the site so you wouldn’t have to make changes to the parent theme files.

If you activate the child theme, I can take a look and see what the problem might be with the sidebar.

Thank you CrouchingBruin, the child theme has now been re-avtivated, with the side bar missing.

Regards

The code for the sidebar appears to be still there. If you go to Appearance → Widgets from the admin dashboard, do you see any widgets in the sidebar area? Can you try dragging over a Recent Posts widget, for example?