The parent theme is missing. Please install the "ABC" parent theme

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I have a wordpress-3.3.1 instance and two themes installed. Theme A is parent theme and theme B is a child.

I'm trying to make theme C which is a child of B, but I get a message in wordpress:

The parent theme is missing. Please install the "B" parent theme.

Is it possible to make double inheritance in Wordpress themes?

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2 Answers

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Adding a file named index.php to Theme B seems to trigger Theme C to show up as 'working' (so you can activate it).

I guess you could then require_once the index.php file from Theme A in your new index.php in Theme C.

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In my case, the Parent theme folder was north-wp but in the child theme CSS I saw Version: 1.0.0 Author: fuelthemes Author URI: http://themeforest.net/user/fuelthemes Template: north Text Domain: north

What was missing is the additional -wp in Template: as WordPress looks at the theme directory name as a reference.