# MKLINK putting my child theme doesn't show in WordPress Local

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/mklink-putting-my-child-theme-doesnt-show-in-wordpress-local/555
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [April 2, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/mklink-putting-my-child-theme-doesnt-show-in-wordpress-local/555 "2021-04-02T04:28:39Z")
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### Author: ![Andrew\_Fair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/andrew_fair/32/396_2.png) [@Andrew\_Fair](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Andrew_Fair)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/mklink-putting-my-child-theme-doesnt-show-in-wordpress-local/555/1 "2021-04-02T04:28:39Z")

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I was doing the same thing I did when I was working with Local. Though when I did a mklink, I can go to explorer and see the folder is there, the files, etc. Though when I go to activate the theme within the WordPress installation it doesn’t show at all.

wp-content \> themes \> folder is there. All required files (works on a production environment just fine) It’s in this location using a mklink junction.

Does not see it at all and thus I’m not able to work on my folders.

I have a multiple step build process setup so just dumping all my folders into the WordPress installation is messy, am I missing something here or does KinstaDev not support this yet?

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### Author: ![michael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/michael/32/31_2.png) [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/mklink-putting-my-child-theme-doesnt-show-in-wordpress-local/555/2 "2021-04-02T16:22:15Z")

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Welcome to DevKinsta @Andrew_Fair ! We’re glad you’re here. I’m afraid at this time MKLINK and symbolic links are not currently supported. [We do welcome feedback though](https://community.kinsta.com/c/feature-requests/6)! Apologies again!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/8/80f8c4e56fecc02327a0964e6bf63a716483529f.png) [@system](https://community.kinsta.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/mklink-putting-my-child-theme-doesnt-show-in-wordpress-local/555/3 "2021-04-05T16:22:19Z")

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