I am a bit new at this, so forgive me if I don’t explain properly, but I’ll do my best.
So, I am a fresh developer of sorts. Everyone in my section of the office uses a Macbook Pro. Upon hiring, some confusion on my part led me to get a Windows laptop, as I thought was the standard at my office. I take that back, one very talented co-worker also uses a Windows PC.
When my superiors were baffled that I chose the Windows computer that they offered me, I felt defeated, but, alas, Linux to the rescue. My fellow Windows user said he preferred running Linux on Ubuntu through a VM on the PC as the specs on were equal and likely better than the Macbook that our company offered.
So, he help me set up Ubuntu on this solid state Dell PC, and everything has been just fine. Well, for the most part everything has been fine. Ubuntu isn’t much different than the Mac OS, but things such as permissions (and actually using the terminal–took me a while to figure that out) are a little different.
So, that’s the back story. My partner on this project is using the most current Mac OS X, and I’m using the most current version of Ubuntu. He is working on a client’s WordPress site. It uses a parent and child theme. It’s working just fine on his machine.
He gave the entire project file to me, database included, via external HD. Well, we instantly had problems. We had to re-setup some of the plugins and add-on files (to be expected). But then the site itself on my localhost just wouldn’t work.
So we looked and looked and looked and determined that the child theme could not find a folder in the parent theme, so we copied that file over to the child theme. Voila, it kind of worked. But even in my limited experience I know that defeats the purpose of parent/child structure and is just a bad idea. But even then the CSS wasn’t coming over along with imported fonts and images and whatnot.
Basically, the child theme is only reading some of the parent them, if any. The basic structured of the website and WordPress is up and running, but the styles just aren’t coming over. It’s looking in the child theme (as we discovered in the console), but it should be looking in the parent–which it does on his machine but not mine.
So, we put link files/folders in the child as a temporary patch, but still some files and styles aren’t coming through.
I cannot exchange laptops, so I’m stuck running Ubuntu, which I thought would be fine. But it seems that my machine is just not reading these files the same as his despite our files being exactly the same initially.
I’ve edited permissions as best as I could, too, so I don’t think that’s an issue, but it might be.
As an Ubuntu and programming newbie, I appreciate any help. I know this was more than a narrative than a specific question, but honestly I’m struggling to know the specific problem. I’ll respond to any questions as best as I can.
Thanks guys and gals.
EDIT: WP Debug info:
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