Twenty Twelve footer

Wow, that’s odd – the site shows this as the active theme:

href='https://alwaysaredhead.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/style.css?ver=3.5.1'

What’s the name on the child theme folder?

Do you have caching on your site or server? Maybe it’s not showing changes?

The new message I receive is:
TwentyTwelve Child

By Catherine BurdenVersion 0.1.0
Child theme for the twentytwelve theme

This child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve.

This is the code in the child theme:

/*
Theme Name: TwentyTwelve Child
Theme URI: https://alwaysaredhead.com
Description: Child theme for the twentytwelve theme
Author: Catherine Burden
Author URI: https://alwaysaredhead.com/about/
Template: twentytwelve
Version: 0.1.0
*/

@import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”);

What is the name on the child theme folder? Where is this message showing up?

This line “This child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve” does not mean anything is necessarily wrong – that shows up for any child theme – or are you seeing it someplace other than just below the theme image (blank).

What happens if you click “activate” for the child theme?

The name of the child theme folder is twentytwelve-child. I uploaded everything using FileZilla. All the correct folders are there, in the right place.

Next I logged into WordPress, went to themes, and activated the new child theme, this is when I received the message “this child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve”.

Now when I just click on my web site, all is fine, nothing has changed, not that it would since there is no new code in the child theme.

Actually, when you change to a child theme, you typically would see changes – as theme settings/options don’t carry over to a child theme.

Try removing the hyphen from the child theme folder name.

My original goal was to change the footer.php by adding a table with images to it. So I thought I understood, all I had to do was create a new footer.php and put it in the twentytwelve-child directory.

Or, am I suppose to copy everything from the footer.php, paste it into the new style.css which would be put in the twentytwelve-child directory?

Yes, I understand what you want to do. But the child theme is evidently not working or is not activated, so until that’s fixed, there is no point moving forward.

No, the footer.php code does not go in the style.css file. It is a separate file in the child theme – and should (to start with) be a copy of the parent footer.php file.

So you should have:

wp-content
   themes
      twentytwelve
          many files
      twentytwelvechild
          style.css
          footer.php

I would still suggest that you change the name on the child theme folder – remove capitals and the hyphen – sometimes that seems to be a problem.

The footer has shown up, but I am still receiving the message (in WordPress):

Current Theme
TwentyTwelve Child

By Catherine BurdenVersion 0.1.0
Child theme for the twentytwelve theme

This child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve.

I have lost my header for the theme.

I would still suggest that you change the name on the child theme folder – remove capitals and the hyphen – sometimes that seems to be a problem.

For some reason I have lost the image I was using in the header.

Now it’s working – YAY – and as I said, changes you have made to the parent theme are not carried over – you’ll need to redo them in the child theme.

Had you made any changes to theme files- such as style.css or any .php files?

I haven’t made any changes to the style.css or php files. I added the new footer.php and put it in the twentytwelvechild directory.

Why though is WordPress still giving me the message that:

This child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve.

As I posted earlier –

This line “This child theme requires its parent theme, Twenty Twelve” does not mean anything is necessarily wrong – that shows up for any child theme

It’s simply to ensure that you have the parent theme installed.

Thank you very much for all of your assistance, enjoy the rest of your Friday. ??