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

Posted by Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
119 Points

I am trying to make a child theme, but my active theme from WordPress is not listed in my local files?

I see other themes listed on my local disk, but the theme I am currently using (and wanting to make a child theme for) is not there. What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Can you write out the path where you're looking? The theme you're using should be in wp-content > themes

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
119 Points

wordpress > wp-content > themes

Then I see several themes listed, twentyfourteen, twentythirteen, etc... but not the current theme I use on my site.

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

That's odd. When you're logged in the backend, go to Appearance > Themes, and make sure the theme you are looking for is selected. You should only be able to see themes that are in that directory I believe. Also make sure that your local files are up-to-date. If you're looking at a site that is on a remote server, FTP in and see if you can find the theme in the server files and download it to your local environment.

Ron Gootman
Ron Gootman
24,409 Points

Hi Nick, I had the same issue, since I already have started working on a site before implementing the chile theme method.

I did as you said, downloaded the remote server themes on to my local environemnt to make sure that both my local and public are the same.

Then I followed Zac's procedure from creating a child theme - however when I go to the wordpress admin area into the theme section, I cannot find the duplicated "child theme" version.

Any thoughts on that? I suspect that since I have installed wordpress using the 1 click method first and only afterwards installed the 5-minute method that something is not synced properly.

After completing the 5-minute install, when I opened the mysite.com/wp-admin it would skip the wp-config.php part - would that be the core issue?