Problems with my graphene-child theme

anamari
October 9, 2015 at 10:46 am #10154

I want to make a child theme in my graphene, but when i put in my ftp the style.css file don’t works!! It show me page blank… I put the code in the style file ok with the import to the graphene theme, so what can i do to fix it? Thanks
Mod
Kenneth John Odle
October 9, 2015 at 3:21 pm #45517
Quote:

I want to make a child theme in my graphene

Your child theme folder should not be in the Graphene theme folder. Your directory structure should look like this:
```
wp-content

themes

graphene

graphene-child
```
All the files related to your child theme would then go in graphene-child (or whatever you have named this directory).
anamari
October 13, 2015 at 7:26 am #45518

Hi Kenneth, i have my chil theme there but didn’t work! I put the folder in themes graphene-child and inside the file style.css but when i go to the dashboard to active the child theme it show me an advice that the template is missing. But what template? So i put in the chil theme folder the following files: index.php, loop-index.php, and the others loops and funtions.php (this files are the sames that father theme)… And when i active the child theme the navigator show me a page blank…
Mod
Kenneth John Odle
October 13, 2015 at 4:39 pm #45519
Quote:

So i put in the chil theme folder the following files: index.php, loop-index.php, and the others loops and funtions.php (this files are the sames that father theme)…

Don’t do that, unless you need them to overwrite the parent theme.

Did your child theme style.css file begin like 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");
```
anamari
October 14, 2015 at 7:24 am #45520

yes… but if i only put in the directory graphene-child the file style.css in the dashboard when i want to activate this chil theme i show this advice:

“Themes damaged,

The following themes are installed but incomplete. The themes should have a stylesheet and a template.

Name

Graphene ChildTheme URI: http: //www.aceitedecoco.orgDescription: Child theme for the Graphene themeAuthor: AceitedecocoAuthor URI: http: //www.aceitedecoco.orgTemplate: grapheneVersion: 1.0

template is missing.”

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
October 15, 2015 at 12:51 am #45521

Please copy and paste the entire contents of your child stylesheet here.
anamari
October 15, 2015 at 7:17 am #45522
```
/*

Theme Name:     Graphene Child

Theme URI:      http://www.aceitedecoco.org

Description:    Child theme for the Graphene theme

Author:         Aceitedecoco

Author URI:     http://www.aceitedecoco.org

Template:       graphene

Version:        1.0

*/

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



/* =Resets and Clearfix

*/



html,

body,

h1,

h2,

h3,

h4,

h5,

h6,

p,

img,

ul,

ol,

li,

form,

fieldset {

border: 0 none;

margin: 0;

padding-top: 3px;

}



/* Containers

*/

.widget.jetpack_subscription_widget {

background-color: #acd3fc;

border: 1px solid #2577bb;

alignment-adjust:central;

border-radius: 4px;

margin: 10px 0 0;

min-height: 35px;

overflow: auto;

padding: 5px 0px 5px 30px;



}
```
Admin
Syahir Hakim
October 15, 2015 at 10:41 pm #45523
WordPress now requires all child themes to have at least two files:
```
style.css

functions.php
```
So delete all the other files that you have in the child theme except the above two. Then, in the functions.php file, just enter this code:
```
<?php

/* Custom functions for the child theme  */
```
anamari
October 16, 2015 at 8:01 am #45524

I put only this files and the error show me again! Missing template, damage theme
anamari
October 19, 2015 at 8:01 am #45525
Only if i put the index.php in my child theme i can updated it, so in my index i put the same of the father theme
```
<?php

/**

* The main template file.

*

* This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme

* and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).

* It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query.

* E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.

* Learn more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

*

* @package Graphene

* @since Graphene 1.0

*/

global $graphene_settings;

get_header(); ?>



<div class="entries-wrapper">

<?php

do_action('graphene_index_pre_loop');



/* Run the loop to output the posts.

* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file

* called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.

*/

while ( have_posts() ) {

the_post();

get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );

}

?>

</div>



<?php graphene_posts_nav(); ?>



<?php get_footer(); ?>
```
But my web show only the background and not the contain. What i have to do in my index of the chidtheme to fix it?