This is easy to do and all it requires you to do is add (or copy) the files into the child theme, WordPress will then choose the child’s version over the parent. The whole purpose of creating this child theme is so that you can make changes to the parent. Changing something that the parent theme does You don’t have to do this but it makes the site seem more like your own, especially when people snooping see your theme folder as /wp-content/my-custom-made-them/ in the sites source.Īfter the folder name change (you may have to re-activate the theme if you have already activated before the folder name change) you could further customise by changing the theme name in the style.css file contained in the child theme folder.īy changing the info in that style.css file you will see the theme name in the /wp-admin/themes.php theme menu change, which may be a good way to WOW clients.
One of the first things that I do when I work on a child theme is change the name of the folder that it is in. Now you can move on to editing the child theme. Go to your /wp-content/themes/ section and you should now see a listing for “ UnderStrap Child” that you can activate and browse to the front end to see live. Perhaps due to sheer excitement you may want to see your new child theme in action. Upload this to your /wp-content/themes/ directory and unpack.ģ. Make sure that the parent theme is readyĮnsure that you have a working theme (UnderStrap in our case) in the /wp-content/themes/ directory and activate it to test it:ĭownload the Base child theme from our UnderStrap child themes section. If you are creating a child theme from scratch for UnderStrap or any other WordPress theme then ideally check out this official guide. You can use any theme that contains the minimum files needed ( see here for ’s list of needed files to make a theme “a theme”). Installing a child theme to work on is dead easy, lets use UnderStrap as an example parent theme. ( We are assuming you have your WordPress hosting setup ready to upload by FTP.) Imagine creating a Halloween and Christmas version of your site that can be switched with one click in the back end. You could also create several child themes of the original and switch easily between them in /wp-admin/.
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This way you can still update the parent theme when its updated by its author without overwriting your changes. This parent-child system allows you to take a theme or starter framework like UnderStrap, then create a child without editing any of the original theme files. Then anything you do in the child theme will overwrite what the parent theme did. A child theme will inherit its parents files and settings. You may not know though, that any theme can have a child theme. Its is an amazingly simple system and its the touches like this that have made WordPress the number one CMS in the world.
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In WordPress you can install a new theme by simply taking a. If you have used WordPress for even a small amount of time you will most probably have come across the themes section.
( This is a guide that looks at child themes for the UnderStrap framework but the lessons here can be applied to all sorts of WordPress themes) What is a child theme? There are ways to streamline your website development so you can work in a sensible time frame by engaging in a few hacks, which we will discuss here. Not everyone has the time to build a WordPress theme from scratch, but at the same time we all crave that unique – one of a kind look for our website.
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