{"id":12147,"date":"2014-08-06T23:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogosense.com\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2020-02-15T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:24:11","slug":"create-child-theme-wordpress-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogosense.com\/create-child-theme-wordpress-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Child Themes: The Beginners Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unless you’ve created a child theme for your WordPress blog, nothing is more frustrating than to lose all your theme customization, whenever you update your existing WordPress theme. Every time, when we install a new theme on our blog, we are always keen to add a change or two in the theme design or functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my early days with WordPress, I had little to no knowledge on how to create a child theme for my WordPress site, in fact, I don’t even know what the heck is a child theme, and what it has to do with my existing theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I still remember the day, when a new update of the theme which, I was using on my blog, was released and I was more than excited to try it on my first WordPress blog, and as soon as I had installed the update, whoa! I had lost every single change that I had added to my blog design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later the theme developer, told me, “you should have installed a child theme to save your theme customization.” That was the day, and since then I had always used a child theme for my WordPress sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is a child theme?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A child theme in simple terms is the baby theme of your existing theme, it inherits all the features of the parent theme and it’s where you should add all the changes that you had ever wanted to add in your parent theme. The child theme overrides your parent theme, and you can literally just modify anything in your parent theme, without modifying a piece of code in the main theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the requirements to create a child theme?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. A WordPress blog<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. FTP access credentials, or Hosting providers file manager interface.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Filezilla or just any FTP access client.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to create a Child theme?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It’s super easy to create a child theme, in fact, all you need to do is just add a new directory, description and a single line to define the template in the new style.css in your child theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me show you how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am using Elegant themes Divi<\/strong> theme on this blog, and as you can see I had created a new directory in the wp-content\/themes, and named it as “Divi child.” Next, you’ve to create a style.css inside the child theme directory and save the following code in that file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Note: You can customize the Theme Name, URI, Description, Template and other details, as per your parent theme.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s compulsory to define a parent template<\/strong> name and the @import<\/strong> sections, it identifies the parent theme and imports the CSS. Be sure that everything is case sensitive here, for instance, the directory name of Divi, starts with a capital letter, so it’s required for you to define it with a capital letter, “D<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n