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How to restrict users to child theme only

  • @webby101

    Participant

    14 years, 2 months ago

    How could I use my child theme (child to twentyeleven) as the default theme when someone creates a new blog. I’ve tried everything and I’m starting to think it’s not possible.

    Location of twentyeleven parent theme:
    /wp–content/themes/twentyeleven/

    Location of BP child theme:
    /wp–content/themes/twentyelevenchild/

    My child theme is the only thing I have network activated but still it defaults to the twentyeleven parent. I’ve tried using the define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘theme-folder-name’); method in the wp-config but I get a white screen when loading the sub-domained blog. I’ve tried hardcoding it into the default-constants.php with limited results.

    Please help!

    Thanks!

    This is for a clean BP install using the latest versions of both WP and BP where blogs get created as a subdomain.

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  • @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Just to be sure, does the child theme have a different name and do you have => Template: twentyeleven in the style sheet header?

    @webby101

    Participant

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Yes… they are named as follows:

    Parent theme:
    /wp–content/themes/twentyeleven/

    Child theme:
    /wp–content/themes/twentyelevenchild/

    Style sheet for child theme is as follows:

    /*
    Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child
    Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
    Author: xatblogs.com
    Template: twentyeleven
    */

    @import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”);

    How do they look?

    @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Have you tried using a different parent theme, to test if it’s the child or 20 11? I haven’t used 20 11 for a parent but I think I read somewhere a problem with 20 11 as a parent.

    @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 2 months ago

    also when you get a white page it could be a php coding error in your theme

    @webby101

    Participant

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Just tried with 20 10 and I have the same problem. It won’t take hold of the child theme. I just get a blank white screen.

    @webby101

    Participant

    14 years, 2 months ago

    btw, i’m now displaying PHP errors with display_errors = On via php.ini and all i see is the same blank white page :(

    @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 2 months ago

    yeah, I’m saying do not use the default themes that come with wordpress. Just to test. It shouldn’t matter but I think there have been problems with using default WP theme and children on MultiSite.

    Is your 20 11 parent theme BuddyPress ready? This could also be a problem. If you are using BP Template pack and 20 11 and then trying to use a child on top of that.

    @webby101

    Participant

    14 years, 2 months ago

    “BuddyPress ready” – this is new to me :) Ummm… I’m just using 20 10 default that came with WordPress. If there is another can you point me to it?

    Thank you!

    @modemlooper

    Moderator

    14 years, 2 months ago

    This could be the issue not sure but to run BuddyPress you need to have a capable theme.

    Are you running BuddyPress? I know its a silly question but people have posted on here before about WP issues.

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