Troubles installing child theme

Hello everyone,

I am trying to install the child theme for "social". However, it is not working and tells me the following error:

"The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the <code>style.css</code> stylesheet.
Theme install failed."

I would highly appreciate help on this, as I do not want to set everything up from zero in first place.
Many thanks!

Hi,

Did you read this article?
https://www.gavick.com/documentation/wo ... ld-themes/

Don't install it like normal WP theme, just create Msocial-child theme with style.css file:

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/*
Theme Name:     Msocial Child
Theme URI:      http://www.gavick.com
Description:    Child theme for the Msocial theme
Author:         GavickPro
Author URI:     http://www.gavick.com
Template:       Msocial
Version:        1.0
*/

Activate your Msocial-child and then you can copy files from your Msocial parent (only files which you want to change).

Hi there,

I did follow your example. However, it deleted everything I have done so far in the parent theme (widgets, etc.). When I went back to the parent theme it deleted my GK Image title overlay widgets. Is that normal?

Basically, do I have to do all the work in the child theme including setting up widgets and the menue?

Yes WP treats it like another theme, so it's normal, you should set your widgets, menus etc on Child theme, and if you need some code modification you can copy files from parent to your child theme and edit them. (If you didn't copy any files, child theme is using every files from parent theme but it's still another theme.)

Thanks for the quick reply, I thought it worked similar to the override.css file. My mistake.

Cheers, Dirgis