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i dont remember making that many changes. The ones I did I have copied to the new folder.

Wouldnt these have to be changes in the style.css file? Pretty sure I avoided touching that one.

switched back. did you get a good look?

going up now

I’ll switch it for a minute in exactly 10 minutes so you can take a quick look. Is that ok?

Here are a couple of screenshots of the child theme in live preview:

https://wordsandmusic.me/wp-content/uploads/General/sidebar.jpg
https://wordsandmusic.me/wp-content/uploads/General/spacing.jpg

and this is the current theme on my webiste: https://www.wordsandmusic.me

I think this is a little beyond that. Spacing is all off (between words, lines and paragraphs) and the content takes up the entire width of the page, with the sidebar pushed down below the posts.

Is that normal?

Ok, so it turns im an idiot. For anybody who happens to suffer from the same problems, make sure you are creating the child theme directory in the public_html/wp content/themes folder and not the wp-content folder in the wordpress folder.

Thanks for all your help, yogi.

Thanks, but this is actually what I was using. What problem were you referring to?

No, copied and edited on the server using the code editor provided by my hosting company. It is a css file.

Ive also just downloaded a child theme i found on a website and upload that css file, but still nothing.

I did both of those, but no luck yet.

At first I copied the css file from the parent theme and changed the necessary variables. That didnt work, so i found code from a website explaining the process and uploaded that, which is what im unsuccessfully trying work with now.

Good ideas, but unfortunately didnt resolve. I tried both clearing the db as well as deactivating the plugin completely.

I am able to switch to other themes i have download in the past, but no child themes (ive tried several for a few themese).

Thanks for the quick reply.

I do have caching on my site using the w3 cache plugin, and some manual changes for expirys.

The name of the folder is twentyten child.