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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Elizabeth BABYCH
Elizabeth BABYCH
6,993 Points
Posted by Elizabeth BABYCH
Elizabeth BABYCH
6,993 Points

Can i edit my Wordpress page with child themes if I did the one click wordpress install?

Am I still able to manage the website manually if I did the 1-click Wordpress install? If so, how? I ended up activating with the one-click install through cpanel. Now, I'd like to use a child theme and edit my page locally & FTP with filezilla, but I'm running into issues at this step because my child theme isn't recognized. It says that I don't have a parent theme installed, but I do, in the public_html folder. Does anyone have any ideas?

1 Answer

Caleb Sylvest
Caleb Sylvest
7,642 Points

To be able to use WordPress themes and child themes the theme files need to be in the theme directory, which is usually somewhere along the path like /wp-content/themes/. So you can't add the theme to the root, that's probably your main problem.

And yes, you can FTP the files up, using the one-click install or any other install method doesn't matter. But, if you are having troubles figuring all the FTP stuff out, I really just suggest adding parent and child themes through the WordPress admin.

Here's a step-by-step guide to upload theme files via the WordPress admin: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes_using_the_Administration_Panels

Hope that helps!

-Caleb