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Vantage Child Theme – this theme is broken

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11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

to continue with previous thread, Vantage Premium theme is active. Child theme “is broken”.

Appearance – Themes shows Vantage Premium them to be active and when you scroll to the bottom, you see the following:
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name
Description
My Vantage Child Theme The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Vantage” parent theme.

OK, parent theme is active. And, it has been removed and uploaded several times.

When you go to Themes – Editor – and select My Vantage Child Theme to edit, the stylesheet has at the top: “This theme is broken. The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Vantage” parent theme.” the style.css is as follows:

/*
Theme Name: My Vantage Child Theme
Version: 1.0
Description: A child theme for Vantage premium, the premium business directory theme for WordPress.
Author: Your Name
Author URL: http://www.your-url.com
Template: Vantage
Verson:	1.0
*/
@import url("../vantage/style.css");

As stated previously, originally created in InstantWordPress and it works. Uploaded using Duplicator plugin. Doesn’t work. And have uploaded themes and all else via ftp. HELP

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Tom

    Try changing Template: to lower case vantage:

    Template: vantage

    Here is an example child theme you can check out if needs be.

    https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vantage-child-vanilla.zip

  2. Tom 11 years, 2 months ago

    wow! such a simple thing overlooked! it worked!

    But, the footer and side bar do not show up.

    Any ideas how to correct?

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 2 months ago

    Super, glad that helped.

    Activating a child theme causes a lot to reset. Have you checked Appearance > Widgets? You might just need to drag those widgets from Inactive, back into the widget areas.

  4. Tom 11 years, 2 months ago

    It worked! Thanks again!

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 2 months ago

    For sure, glad you’re making progress here. All the best.

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