dragon52x

Ok, I have resolved the mystery. The php needs to be

<?php
/*
Template Name: xxx Template
*/
?>

I’ve got it.

All I have done different this time was to close wordpress pages, ie close wordpress and wordpress/wp-admin.

Deleted everything and start again. I create the folder and the css manually then login to wp-admin and there it is !!! Little thing like this drives you nuts sometimes.

thanks for everyone’s help none the less

David, from Appearance>Themes there is no Add New. Are we using diff wp versions?

There are Manage Themes and Install Themes tabs.

From Install Themes I use upload instead but again can’t see the child theme. Here is what I did.

Change the css file

/*
Theme Name: Test Theme
Description: Child theme for the twentyeleven theme
Author: XXX
Template: twentyeleven
*/

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

zipped and renamed it to test.zip

I delete existing twentyeleven-child folder first cause upload wouldn’t work otherwise

Then Appearance>Themes>Install Themes>Upload.

It says upload is successful. I click activate and it takes me back to the Themes’ page.

Checked that Themes/twentyeleven-child folder was created with style.css inside.

I logout of dashboard. Login again but nothing.

I appreciate your help!

OK, I go to manage themes’ page and twentyeleven is the active theme (right at the top) and twentyten below it, but no twentyeleven-child.

I go to the edit page (appearance/editor) top right corner where there is a dropdown and there are only 2 themes to choose from, child is not one of them.

I have also done what tgpoletti has suggested. I zip, upload, install and activated it but still can’t find this child theme anywhere.

Help !!

Thanks everyone !!

Yes, I understand that. Can’t I use the editor on the dashboard to modify this css file like I can with the twentyeleven/syle.css?? Do I have to modify it outside of the wp-admin interface??

Problem is from the wp-admin interface I can’t see the twentyeleven-child theme and it’s style.css

How can I check that the child theme is activated because I have change something in the child style.css but the web pages are still the same.

thanks

thanks for your quick reply but it does not appear any where on the dashboard for me to activate. Here is the content of style.css with all required lines.

[CSS moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please just post a link to your site.]

I go to the theme’s page top right corner where you select a theme and there are only 2, twentyeleven and twentyten.

How do I find the style.css of twentyeleven-child so I can work on it??

Thanks songdogtech.

Problem solved. I removed the url because “https://#” actually gives you an error.

The guide doesn’t tell you stuff like this!

Thanks

Problem solved. Dion was right!
Thanks heaps.

I have found the answer.

The IP address is in the wp-options table of the wordpress database. 2 records in this table need to be changed.

Thanks Avinash,

Are you saying the css or the path to the css is missing/wrong?

The ip address in the following url is wrong. The ‘x.x.x.x’ bit is not the network ip I am using. Where does the system get the ip from? How does it work out the ‘href’, ie ‘stylesheet_url’ part?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="https://x.x.x.x/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyten/style.css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

The trouble is I don’t know where to look for these files. Where is the actual code file for that web page. I have done search of the text ‘Hello World’ but nothing was found.

I know so little of the wp file structure.

Thanks for your help