treesforgoshen

Thanks.

hey so thanks for the code. For some reason when I use it the default image seems to disappear. however, the images i put in the featured image don’t appear in the header, there’s just no image.

which may work ok. we can just add a photo at the top of the post rather than having one in the header. but I’m just curious, did I do something wrong?

Also, in an unrelated question I’m having another issue. For some reason, when I try to publish a blog post. I get this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mistylake_get_template_part() in /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-content/themes/misty-lake-child/single.php:16 Stack trace: #0 /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-includes/template-loader.php(74): include() #1 /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once(‘/home3/treesfo2…’) #2 /home3/treesfo2/public_html/index.php(17): require(‘/home3/treesfo2…’) #3 {main} thrown in /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-content/themes/misty-lake-child/single.php on line 16

Have tried several different blog posts, same result every time. Any ideas what’s going on?

Great. That seems to work. Thank you, like i said this is still all Greek to me.

Odd thing is, when I tried just uploading the functions.php I still got the error. But when I deleted the whole folder from the server and re-uploaded it it seemed to work.

Now, on to tackle the original issue – the pictures!!

awesome. thanks.

so, i’m new to pastebin too and i don’tknow how to embed it here. here’s the link: https://pastebin.com/UQ2YfBXQ

Sure. First I basically just duplicated the theme and added “-child” to the folder containing it. It appeared in the themes when I went to appearance/themes. But if I would try to select or preview it I would get this error: Error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ”Skip t’ (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-content/themes/misty-lake-child/header.php on line 36

So then I changed the style file like you’re supposed to. Now when I try to click on appearance I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in /home3/treesfo2/public_html/wp-content/themes/misty-lake-child/functions.php on line 139. I can’t even get the different themes to appear, just as soon as I hit ‘Appearance’ it goes to that error message.

I’m assuming I have gotten the code in the style wrong but to be honest it’s still all greek to me so I don’t know what to change. Thanks.

Actually I found them. I may have posted this prematurely. I dug around a little more and found them, they just weren’t where I expected them to be. Again, I’m just starting. So I made the child them – at least, I thought, but now I’m getting an error message on the site after I upload it.

hey, thanks for your advice. So I am in the process of setting the website up on our own domain (not on wordpress.com) through BlueHost. I’m connected via ftp, getting a feel for how things are set up, etc. So, I followed the instructions on setting up the child theme. I uploaded it to the server in the wp-content/themes folder. But now when I hit the appearance tab I get this message :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in —–functions.php on line 139. (I edited out the file structure there)

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Hi. Thanks for the links. I’m not having any problems connecting or using filezilla. I can connect just find and am able to download and upload files.

My basic question is, shouldn’t the wordpress site already have a content and admin folder? And if not, how do I get the site to use my content folder which I want to have a custom theme in?

Or, to put it another way, I’m able to use ftp, I’m just not sure what I should be doing with it.

Hey Chad thanks for the detailed response and code. I am about to reveal the extent of my noobishness. I started by trying to create a child theme. However, the site that I’ve set up so far has been entirely through wordpress’s web admin. I did download the wordpress folder thinking it would be software but I haven’t done any uploading via ftp or anything. So, basically my site as far as I know is not connected to any folders on my local computer.

So, the first thing you’re supposed to do in making a child theme is to make a child theme directory in your file structure… however, I don’t believe this will do anything because the site isn’t connected to it. So I started looking into maybe connecting the site to the folders via ftp, but I came across something on wordpress that wordpress.com sites don’t allow. My site right now is on wordpress.com. The plan was to get that going and then transfer it to its final home.

So, anyway, I’m not sure what I need to do to create the child theme. Any further thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.