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- December 7, 2017 at 1:00 am #23335Anonymous UserMember
I’m creating a child theme using Diced as the parent, but when referencing boldgrid-diced as the parent name WordPress is saying the theme doesn’t exist, yet Diced is installed. I’m thinking I don’t have the correct name listed, but I don’t know where to find the name. Thoughts?
December 7, 2017 at 2:42 pm #23338JohnPaul BMemberHello Keith,
Thank you for your question about creating a child theme. We a great example of how to accomplish this with the Hydra theme in our guide on how to Create a Child Theme to Customize Your WordPress Website. In that example, you should be able to just replace the $parent_style value with ‘boldgrid-diced’.
Thank you,
John-Paul
December 7, 2017 at 7:52 pm #23337Anonymous UserMemberHi John-Paul,
Thanks for the response, and that’s exactly what I did, but WordPress said that the Diced theme was not installed, thus my confusion. How do I find out exactly what value the theme is using?
December 7, 2017 at 8:20 pm #23336Anonymous UserMemberAfter further investigating the issue I had a “special” hyphen after boldgrid and diced in style.css, thus the match didn’t occur. Stinkin’ TextEdit…
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