I've developed some twentynineteen-child template. Today, I need to convert my last child-template into a template stand-alone.

I removed the following line from the style.css file:

Template: twentynineteen

And added a few lines to my functions.php file:

if ( ! function_exists( 'oripeau_setup' ) ) :
function oripeau_setup() {
    load_theme_textdomain( 'oripeau', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );
    add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );
    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
    register_nav_menus( array(
        'primary'   => __( 'Primary Menu', 'oripeau' ),
        'secondary' => __('Secondary Menu', 'oripeau' )
    ) );
    add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array ( 'aside', 'gallery', 'quote', 'image', 'video' ) );
}
endif;
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'oripeau_setup' );

I renamed the template folder:

wp-content/themes/oripeau

But echo get_template_directory_uri() still output

/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen

Question: what am I forgetting?

I've developed some twentynineteen-child template. Today, I need to convert my last child-template into a template stand-alone.

I removed the following line from the style.css file:

Template: twentynineteen

And added a few lines to my functions.php file:

if ( ! function_exists( 'oripeau_setup' ) ) :
function oripeau_setup() {
    load_theme_textdomain( 'oripeau', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );
    add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );
    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
    register_nav_menus( array(
        'primary'   => __( 'Primary Menu', 'oripeau' ),
        'secondary' => __('Secondary Menu', 'oripeau' )
    ) );
    add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array ( 'aside', 'gallery', 'quote', 'image', 'video' ) );
}
endif;
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'oripeau_setup' );

I renamed the template folder:

wp-content/themes/oripeau

But echo get_template_directory_uri() still output

/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen

Question: what am I forgetting?

• theme-development
• themes
• templates
• child-theme

Share Improve this question asked Mar 7, 2020 at 22:30 Rémi B. LOIZEAURémi B. LOIZEAU 3111 bronze badge 2

• You need to deactivate and reactivate your theme. – Jacob Peattie Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 2:12
• Brilliant! It's working. Thank you so much. – Rémi B. LOIZEAU Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 14:36

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You need to deactivate and reactivate your theme.

When a theme is activated the template and stylesheet values are set in the database. If you remove Template: from the child theme's stylesheet, the template is still set to twentynineteen in the database, so get_template_directory_uri() will return its URL. Re-activating the theme will ensure that this isn't set to the wrong theme anymore.