Install Updated foxy theme with new name

[Kais]

Hi Bill

I am installing the undated foxy theme.
I had previously created a child theme for Foxy and all was working.

So to implement the upgrade; I renamed the new version of the Foxy theme to Foxy_v2, so I now have a Foxy theme and an Foxy_v2 theme installed.
I made a copy of all the child theme files and changed the style.css file to look for a theme named foxy_v2.

On the WordPress dashboard I am told my new child theme is not complete, the message is
The parent theme is missing. Please install the “foxy_v2” parent theme.

My question is:
In order to change the name of a theme (from Foxy to Foxy_v2) what files should I edit?

I am planing to move over the custom settings from Foxy to Foxy_v2 manually, unless you have a better suggestion.

Thank you in advance for your help.
Kais

[Kais]

Typo should be updated not undated – sorry

[Bill Robbins]

Kais,

I believe we can get things pointed in the right direction. At the top of your child theme’s style.css file, it should look something like this:

/*
Theme Name:     Foxy Child Theme
Description:    A custom child theme for Foxy
Author:         Kais
Template:       foxy


*/

@import url("../foxy/style.css");

Here the template: foxy makes reference to the name of the parent theme that’s set in its style.css file. So if you’re making a new child theme to go with the updated parent theme in a different directory, you’ll need to change the parent theme’s name at the top of it’s style.css file and then reference that as the template in the child theme’s style.css file. That should make it work then.

Make sure that the updated parent theme has the correct name in the style.css file and hopefully that will take care of it for you.

If you have any questions or trouble, let me know.

Thanks,
Bill

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