Cannot get child theme to activate on live site

deborah
April 4, 2011 at 7:05 pm #793
I had my site running smoothly on my PC using BitNami.

I created a child theme easily and it worked fine.

Today I have been trying to get it moved to the hosting service – GoDaddy – and cannot get the child theme to connect. It says the theme is broken, that the parent theme is missing.

I have deleted all extra themes. I deleted Graphene and resinstalled it. I have reviewed the css child theme and cannot determine the problem.

Screen shot of the error message in the dashboard:

Screen shot showing that Graphene is the active theme:

Header of the child css file:
```
@import url('../graphene/style.css');

/*

Theme Name: GrapheneChild

Theme URI: http://www.?.com

Description: This is my first child theme

Author: Deborah

Template: Graphene

*/
```
The site:

http://www.crimsoncolumbine.com

Any suggestions? I am just about at my wits end and considering asking GoDaddy to restore the site to what they initially setup and starting over again.

Edit to add: I tried the sites URL for Theme URI, but that did not work either. That could the the problem, but I don’t know what the URI should be if not http://www.crimsoncolumbine.com or what I have in it.
Kim
April 4, 2011 at 8:32 pm #13573
Hi Deborah

Try this one:
```
/*

Theme Name: Graphene Child

Theme URI: http://www.crimsoncolumbine.com/

Description: Child theme for the Graphene theme

Author: Deborah

Author URI: http://www.crimsoncolumbine.com/

Template: graphene

Version: 0.1.2.1

*/

@import url("/wp-content/themes/graphene/style.css");

/* My modification goes from here */
```
Hmm.. Your pictures are linking to localhost.

Remember to upload and link to the pictures.

I made a very short Child Theme intro last in this post:

Sidebar on front page only

Kim
deborah
April 4, 2011 at 8:50 pm #13574

Yes, I know the photos have not been loaded properly yet. I stopped doing anything to it when I thought I might need to totally reload.

OK, that did it on the colors. Thanks. I’ll continue with the other settings now.

Kim
April 4, 2011 at 8:58 pm #13575

Maybe start with a empty functions.php 🙂

Then add corrections one by one.. worked for me!

Kim

deborah
April 4, 2011 at 9:22 pm #13576

Now it is gritching about the wp-login.php file that apparently GoDaddy loads on top of the wp-admin file…. I’m going to call them since I can’t get into the dashboard right now.

The only thing in the Function file is a change to the header image height.

Kim
April 4, 2011 at 9:29 pm #13577

You only need style.css file in the graphene-child

catalog to start with. The functions.php there is

the one making error!

Kim

deborah
April 4, 2011 at 10:33 pm #13578

Working on photos now. I am not sure that it was worth it to put it together on my PC first.

deborah
April 5, 2011 at 7:32 pm #13579

Finally got the photos loaded and in in the right places. Now I have a test environment on my local PC, but if I do this again (likely) I will not do as much content work on the PC before I move it to the web. “Under Construction” pages don’t bother me. I would rather use one of those than have to do so much work over again.

Thanks again for your help.

Kim
April 5, 2011 at 7:43 pm #13580

Im glad You got it so far 🙂

Not sure Who told the local stuff & how to move wordpress.

But if You want to make text fonts more readable, now You

have a Child Theme, just ask 🙂

Kim