X theme update - Issue with old child themes

[pragmatic]

Summary

[paul.r]

Hi,

The child theme should be in the root themes folder and not in a sub directory.

eg.

Correct Path

wp-content/themes/ourtheme/
wp-content/themes/ourtheme/style.css

Wrong Path

wp-content/themes/x/ourtheme/
wp-content/themes/x/ourtheme/style.css

Hope that helps.

[pragmatic]

The child themes are in the correct path
Please test as described, the error is happening

[mldarshana]

Hi There,

Sorry for the confusion here. We do not recommend to rename your parent theme or child theme as it may cause unnecessary issues.

Keep the parent theme directory as X and child theme as x-child to avoid such problems.

Thanks!

[pragmatic]

Summary

Steps to replicate the issue

Old set up - over a year ago
Ourtheme is a child of X

wp-content/themes/x/
wp-content/themes/ourtheme/

X is trying to update /ourtheme/ and copy all its file into the child theme, breaking the site

To fix this issue, we had to rename /ourtheme to /x-child-ourtheme

So it is a backward compatibility issue with older child theme set up

[nico]

Hi @pragmatic,

Thanks for the summary.

Have you fix the issue already?

As of now, still confuse of the problem. As said above, We do not recommend to rename your parent theme or child theme as it may cause unnecessary issues.

Thanks.