title: how can i get wordpress to understand my custom theme is not a child theme?
body: <p>I had finally finished building a custom theme from scratch after weeks of work, and accidentally clicked on Appearance > Themes. Suddenly the theme is "broken" and won't load in the Themes dialog. I tried renaming the theme folder, I tried editing the headers, deactivating plugins, and nothing works. Everything worked perfectly until I hit the darned Themes link. It says, "AAW Custom Theme   The parent theme is missing. Please install the "AAW" parent theme." But there is no parent theme because it's not a child theme. I have been trying to research the problem but can only find help with child themes. I'm at a loss. How do I get Wordpress to understand that this is not a child theme? </p>