Child theme not working

Sparkling
1

I followed the tutorial on wordpress: created a directory called sparkling-child and added style.css in it which containts the following

/*
 Theme Name:   Sparkling Child
 Theme URI:    
 Description:  Sparkling Child Theme
 Author:       
 Author URI:   
 Template:     sparkling
 Version:      1.0.0
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  
*/

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

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

When I activated the theme though from the admin panel, I get the sparkling look, and page wording, but nothing else was transferred i.e, pictures, menus and the theme preview looks blank when selecting it from the themes panel. I can just manually add them but I’m not sure if this is correct and if it might ruin some functionality.

Could someone chime in?

Thanks

2 
/*
Theme Name: Sparkling Child
Theme URI: https://colorlib.com/wp/themes/sparkling
Author: Colorlib
Author URI: https://colorlib.com/
Description: Sparkling Child Theme
Version: 1.4.0
Template: sparkling
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Text Domain: sparkling
Domain Path: /languages/
Tags: green, light, white, gray, black

*/

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

I don’t see any issues from your setup but you can just copy paste my example which is taken from working example.

Screenshot should be blank unless you copy/pasted it from Parent Theme folder.

3

I used your import, but made no difference, I still need to re-upload the logo, background and menus and widgets. It’s not too much of an ordeal, but is this supposed to happen?

Also, If I want to make any changes to the .php files, like header.php, can I edit them in the parent files or do I have to overwrite them in the child theme?

4

It is expected behavior because WordPress treats it as completely different theme. Of course they are linked but name is different.

All files you want to edit copy/paste them to Child Theme and edit it there. This won’t work with functions.php and files located in inc folder. The rest will work fine.

5

Ok, thanks for all your help!