Sainkho

Nice. Popping that back in the Twentyseventeen themes folder has got me the site back.

I thank you both for your patience with some pretty obvious and quite stellar user error.

So, more poking around – and, yes, that appears to have gotten me in this mess – and I discover, on my host that the style.css in themes/twentyseventeen is in fact that from my child.

I don’t know how I achieved that overwrite but any ideas on how I can get the original parent style.css in place?

Bonus question, shouldn’t Twentyseventeen appear under Themes? I mean, there’s my Child but not the parent showing at all.

And I can’t seem to search and find that original Twenty Seventeen theme… Which seems odd.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Sainkho.

Okay. Finally got around to it and… seem to have broken it completely. Sad times.

First thing was on the Themes page I had a heading ‘Broken themes’ and the text called out my child by name with this – “The theme defines itself as its parent theme. Please check the Template header.”

I figured to first just to ignore my child and reset to the original Twenty Seventeen but when I hit ‘Activate’ I got, “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

Now in Recovery Mode. ;o)

So when I go into Theme File Editor I have this:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Seventeeeeen Child
Description: Twenty Seventeen/Nineteen Child Theme
Template: twentyseventeen
*/

There’s a problem there?

Oh. The answer relies on my dodge memory. I’ll see tomorrow and come back.

This happened while attempting to cludge the CSS for the Events plugin.

But resetting to the Twenty Seventeen is a genius move as a starting point. Thanks!

Ach! This is embarrassing, but in sorting out an answer to you I had another go, or three, and found the issue.

I think I needed some time away from the problem to approach it less fatigued.

Anyhoo, ya kinda drew out a solution. ;o)

Well, calling it a ‘theme’ is a bit of a stretch – I’ve only just started with it. ;o)

There’s scant stuff in my functions.php but I guess I just comment out a bit at a time and see if that makes any changes??

Thanks for the steers so far. I’ll poke around like I say and see what I break next!

Hey. Thanks for that.

So, I misread your instructions and dived straight into swapping out my first-stab child theme and, hey presto, when I edited a page or installed your Health Check it all played ball.

And when I reverted to my child… it all went back to misbehaving. The thing is, it was fine until the core code was updated. Any ideas where I start to look for the glitch??

Sorry, slower than a slow thing in a low gear, I saw the response and meant to come by and say…

Yeah, I get the CSS removal but would far rather cut it out of the PHP in the first place than have it be delivered then hidden. Is that tricky?

Also, it still leaves me with the title being a link, to a page, that… just covers exactly the same information, i.e. a pretty redundant link.

So now, with mission creep(!) I wonder if I can cut the title link and the Read more at source?? Again, does that mean I should be really using a different template?

Thanks in advance and I’ll try to be faster to respond if you care to respond to this. ;o)

Oh, it does (help)! Ta.

I’d given up on getting a response but after more flailing around in me folders came back, just in case. Note to self: must check junk mail.

Yes, the ‘supplied url’ bit was supposed to be about the single event page.

Thanks awfully for the steer. I’ll have another play soon and see what I can break next. ;o)

Aw, any takers? At all? Anything??

trustedic, you just copy and paste it into the file, I think.

Make sure it’s not accidentally inside the brackets of another function and that’s it.

The functions.php file is just a list of code snippets, functions, that exist in their own right. I believe.

For the possible benefit of others, I discovered someone else with a similar issue and their solution was as simple as simple could be.

In the header (is it?) that goes in the child’s style sheet, I’d got a single space between a colon and the reference to the parent theme’s name. A single space!! Removing it stopped the whole broken theme malarkey, dead in it’s tracks.

A single space!

Meh.

Oh, more research and I see that the index.php in the root of the Themes folder is supposed to be there and be so brief with its content.

So, why do I get this infernal Broken Theme message??

I should add, the child theme runs okay for a day or two and I’ve been able to get the style.css the way I want it. But, then, after that day or so, it goes all broken message on me.