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[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#4581

I have created a child theme folder in themes and created a style.css file, I then went to WP appearance/themes and no child theme is present to activate. Please advice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#28538

I am so sorry, I left the css file empty! Doh! Now sorted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#28539

I take that back, I activated it and my website went to pot

http://everything-poultry.com/

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#28540

Yeah, you have issues with your child theme CSS. What does it contain?

If it’s long, use http://pastebin.com to paste the contents here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#28541

It contains this

/*

Theme Name: Graphene Child

Theme URI: http://example.com/

Description: Child theme for the Graphene theme

Author: Your name here

Author URI: http://example.com/about/

Template: graphene

Version: 1.0

*/

@import url(“../graphene/style.css”);

/* Your modification goes here */

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#28542

That looks okay. Where is the child theme folder? It should be in the same folder as the Graphene theme:

[WordPress] >> wp-content >> themes

[WordPress] is whatever folder you have WordPress installed in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#28543

Yes I am pretty sure its in the right place

everything-poultry.com/wp-content/themes/graphene child

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#28544

Is that a space in the graphene child folder name? If yes, replace it with a dash. As a general rule, it’s bad practice to have spaces in file and folder names for everything web.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#28545

I have changed the file name, but that has not solved the problem.

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#28546

Try refreshing your browser cache. It looks fine now.