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Update problem...This theme is broken....

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Started 8 months ago by carriercarrier
Latest reply from Devin
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carriercarrier
Member

Hi
I have update propulsion to 1.6 and get this error message (in swedish) when I try to reactivate my childtheme

"This theme is broken. Parent theme is missing., Please install the parent theme"

I have installed propulsion via ftp 2 times, and it looks okey when activated.

http://www.carriercarrier.se/wordpress/aa

code for childtheme

/*
Theme Name: Propulsion Child
Version: 2.0
Description: Child theme for Propulsion.
Author: Kriesi
Author URI: http://www.kriesi.at
Template: Propulsion
*/

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

I have not changed anything in the childtheme

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks for all help!!!

/ John from Sweden

Posted 8 months ago #
carriercarrier
Member

I have now deleted my old childtheme and redone a new one, then it works, but i lost all my customation.

Could you please point me in a direction so that I can do it right NEXT TIME ;-)

thx
John

Posted 8 months ago #
Nick
Moderator

Hi,

Here is a good general tutorial on how Wordpress child themes are created. It's the same process for every theme. http://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/child-theme/

Thanks,

Nick

Posted 8 months ago #
carriercarrier
Member

Hi Nick!
Thanks for the info, it will come in usefull.

But what Im looking for is how do I do a normal update of my theme (parent theme or childtheme??) everytime Kriesi have a new update for us to download?

I did it this way

1 - aktivated a Twenty Eleven theme instead of my propulsion-child theme
2 - removed the 1,2 parent propulsion theme
3 - uploaded the 1,6 propulsion theme, via ftp
4- would like to aktivated my propulsion-child theme, but get the message..
""This theme is broken. Parent theme is missing., Please install the parent theme"

thx again!
John

Posted 8 months ago #
Devin
Moderator

Hi John,

Make sure that you can activate the Propulsion main theme before trying to activate the child theme. If you can, then make sure the path to the parent are still exactly the same and that the server didn't somehow rename the folder when you uploaded the most recent version.

Regards,

Devin

Posted 8 months ago #