Why need to develop child theme?
In this article we discuss how create a child theme in wordpress.
How to use of child theme in wordpress and what points are
important in create a child theme in wordpress. If you can perform simple css change in theme design you can design a child theme. Creating a wordpress child theme is very easy and simple. Child theme allow you to some changes without
affecting the original theme script. The child theme is separate
theme depends on their parent theme mostly
functionality. The child theme allow you to changes on the theme according to your
requirement. In the child theme possible
to all content change according to your need. In the child theme we are change font color, size and
different action on the
buttons. If the parent theme is update
in newer version functionality but no
effect on the child theme. Child
theme is performing adjustment of your theme.
Creating a child
theme are following Example.
In this example we
create the child-theme. Some simple steps are using to create the child-theme
in wordpress.
1. Firstly we install
the latest wordpress theme.
2. Create a new
folder like child-theme in "/wp_content/themes/".
3. Copy following
code in new file style.css in child-theme folder.
/*
Theme Name: Child-Theme
Theme URI:
https://domainname.com
Author: Your NAme
Author URI:
https://my-domain-name-here.org/
Description:
Creating my child theme
Version: 1.3
*/
In
this code fist line starting with Theme Name.
Theme name is very important line in this code.
Theme name specify in wordpress what is
name of your theme and after some detail of author name ,
author url , theme description and theme version. Take a screen shot of wp-admin/themes.php Dashboard
page in save screenshot.png and save in child-theme folder.
4. After the theme
detail import the style code in child theme in style.css
@import
url("../parent-theme/style.css");
We can apply new css style in child theme page style.css .
we can change the theme structure using
change the adjustments in child theme. Activating theme
and uploads a child theme is no different
from parent
theme.
5. Copy all another
important files into parent theme in child-theme (such as header.php,
footer.php,
Function.php
etc.) . Activate my child theme in / wp-admin/themes.php. Activate theme via Appearances > Themes page in your WordPress Dashboard. Child-theme activated in dashboard successfully. After the theme activate you can see the frontend
design
of child-theme is same parent theme design.