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Creating a Vantage Premium Child Theme

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Started · Latest reply by Tim Wayne

Hello,
I am trying to create a vantage premium child theme and got the following error:

Broken Themes

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

Name Description
vantage premium-child Theme The parent theme is missing. Please install the “vantage premium” parent theme.

/*
Theme Name: vantage premium-child Theme
Theme URI: http: //company.com/
Description: This is a custom child theme I have created.
Author: My Name
Author URI: http: //company.com/
Template: vantage premium
Version: 0.1
*/
@import url(“../vantage/style.css”);

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff

    Hi ron

    The template should just be vantage, if you remove the word premium you should be good to go.

    Here is a demo child theme you can start with: https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vantage-child-vanilla.zip

    Hope that helps.

  2. ron

    Andrew,
    thank you it but changes that I was able to make on the premium theme never got ported to the child theme like the header, menu and footer. Do i have to go in and re-customize the child theme?
    Ron

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff

    Such a pain isn’t it! Yeah, unfortunately the child gets treated like a new theme in terms of theme options. What I usually do is open the Customizer with the parent theme activated and then in a new tab, activate the child. That way I can copy over Customizer settings manually. Don’t forget to re-assign your menu location too.

    Hopefully we’ll find a workaround for this in the future.

  4. ron

    Andrew,
    Thank you for the excellent support!!

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff

    For sure, glad we could help out.

  6. Tim Wayne

    “Don’t forget to re-assign your menu location too.”

    How do you do that?

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