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Patrick Skinner
1,943 Points"The parent theme is missing. Please install the "Parent theme name - twentythirteen in your case" parent theme."
Developing a Child Theme for Twentythirteen theme (currently following the Wordpress Development pipeline).
I've been back and forth trying to figure this problem out and could use some assistance. I'm getting this in my theme selection menu now:
"The parent theme is missing. Please install the "Parent theme name - twentythirteen in your case" parent theme."
Any suggestions?
2 Answers
Ray Whitaker
2,544 PointsJust throwing up a couple things for you to check:
1) Where are you getting this error? Appearance-->Themes I am guessing?
2) Are you positive that your child theme is named exactly like your parent theme, except for the addition of -child?
3) Finally, the did you name the child theme properly in the style.css in the child theme area?
4) Check and make sure the twentythirteen theme is actually installed. Seems silly, but make sure it is in right folder.
Patrick Skinner
1,943 PointsI'm gonna be honest, and say I'm in over my head at the moment and go through some of the early web developer pipelines. I may have been too bold to jump right into wordpress development right away. I'm gonna come back to this problem after doing so. Thanks for the help!