Title: Childify Me
Author: Rocco Aliberti
Published: <strong>January 5, 2015</strong>
Last modified: November 27, 2024

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# Childify Me

 By [Rocco Aliberti](https://profiles.wordpress.org/d4z_c0nf/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/childify-me.1.3.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/childify-me/)

## Description

**Create child themes from any non-child theme directly from the Theme Customizer
panel.**

Works also when previewing a theme before activation!

Multisite compatible.

#### Plugin Features

FTP credential requests handled in the Customizer.
 **Child-theme’s screenshot generated**
from the parent screenshot, with a ribbon dynamically added. Child-theme’s author
dynamically generated from the user Name and Last Name, if set, otherwise falls 
back on a generic “Administrator”.

#### Credits

 * Thanks to [@nikeo](http://presscustomizr.com) for spurring me, testing my plugin
   and for his valuable advices
 * Thanks to [@rdellconsulting](http://www.rdellconsulting.com) for testing my plugin
   even on multisite and for his valuable advices

#### Translations

The plugin is [translation ready](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/).

Most of the previously bundled Childify Me translations (see the list below) have
been succesfully ported to [translate.wordpress.org](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/childify-me).

 * German ( by [@presskopp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/presskopp/) )
 * Portuguese ( by [@wph4](http://h4bs.com/) )
 * Dutch ( by [@wph4](http://h4bs.com/) )

Childify Me also bundles the following languages (.pot file included in childify-
me/lang):

 * Russian ( by [@baneff](https://wordpress.org/support/profile/baneff) )
 * Ukrainian ( by [@baneff](https://wordpress.org/support/profile/baneff) )
 * Hebrew ( by [@JTS-IL](http://www.glezer.co.il) )

**Many thanks to these generous users 🙂**

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Childify Me creating a child-theme of Customizr-Pro’s from the Customizer
 * [[
 * Childify Me asking for ftp credentials (if you don’t have direct access to the
   filesystem)
 * [[
 * Childify Me succesfully created your child-theme – Yor child-theme in Appearance-
   > Themes
 * [[
 * Childify Me in multisite environment creating a child-theme of Twenty Twelve’s
   from Live Preview

## Installation

 1. Install the plugin right from your WordPress admin in plugins > Add New.
     1-bis.
    Download the plugin, unzip the package and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Go to Appearance -> Customize and you’ll see the “Childify Me” button.
     3-bis. 
    In Appearance -> Themes, hover on a non-child theme and click on Live Preview, 
    once there you’ll see the “Childify Me” button

## FAQ

### I’m in Appearance -> Customize but I cannot find the “Childify Me” button, why?

Is your theme a non-child theme? Childify Me is designed to make child themes only
for non-child themes.

### I created a child theme from Preview, but when I back to Appearance -> Themes I cannot see it, why?

Please, refresh the page.

### How can I create a child-theme in multisite?

Go to Appearance -> Customize (or to Appearance -> Themes, if you want to create
a child-theme of a
 non-active theme, hover on a non-child theme and click on Live
Preview)

### I created a child-theme but I lost my menu, how so?

This is because some options aren’t really part of the theme options.
 Basically
you can consider them as options related to theme. WordPress saves them in a different
db row of the wp-options table. From the Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

**Note:** You may need to re-save your menu (Appearance > Menus, or Appearance >
Customize > Menus) and theme options
 (including background and header images) after
activating the child theme.

### Why my child-theme’s screenshot doesn’t have the ribbon?

That feature is implemented using some functions of the PHP GD module.
 So you need
a PHP version >= 4.0 and the GD module installed and loaded.

### Why for some themes the child-theme style.css uses the @import directive ?

Please read [this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-update-12/) topic

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3adc880ee5a6a73308085cade66170d069202e620d90e62e9d9e6696eb13ae8?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-2601/)󠁿

 [swamptheng666](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swamptheng666/) January 20, 2021
1 reply

I tried it with the Hueman theme with newly installed wp (30/01/2021). There is 
no ‘childfy me’ menu/icon/button

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7c7c7d3e6219a951c029f5aee439ff9d0b9784d77bb8e0ef4a180b21baa640dc?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Quick & Effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-effective/)󠁿

 [tlinkowski](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tlinkowski/) January 10, 2019 1 reply

Great little plugin, thank you!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/590c1a85322729f2345aa128684db6522b37951ea328215b6f501ed8439c0a91?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[THANK YOU!!!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-664/)󠁿

 [Jimmy Lee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shirtguy72/) June 3, 2018 1 reply

This is HOW YOU DO IT!!!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5a13b15ebec95fab046d9d455dccf73d4fabebe5ec50bdc72c90bb08ae7134ea?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[function not ok](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-not-ok/)󠁿

 [krecho](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krissili/) May 9, 2018 1 reply

I used it over customizer, then it comes a note: childtheme directory is ok. But
if i will see it, then it give this message: “The theme directory “magazine-basic-
child” does not exist.” in a white monitor. Two times I tried to use the plugin,
two times there was a bad result :-(((. I escaped it.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/914c6cb44d8f026381de8657cef35ab97ed84fec32eb2201ad8879a83dfa00d5?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-7881/)󠁿

 [crisdepaulaestilo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crisdepaulaestilo/) March 14,
2018 1 reply

super útil e prático!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/06810d4d90352f2b15027eb939463076b82470408911bc8300581744e3d28d07?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Love it!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/love-it-1997/)󠁿

 [frostyking](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frostyking/) December 30, 2017 1 reply

so easy to use, thank you!

 [ Read all 32 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/childify-me/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Childify Me” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Rocco Aliberti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/d4z_c0nf/)

“Childify Me” has been translated into 12 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/childify-me/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Childify Me” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/childify-me)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/childify-me/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/childify-me/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/childify-me/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/childify-me/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.0: November 28, 2024

 * Tested against WordPress 6.7.1
 * Replaced childify-me badge with a smaller image
 * Fixed localized strings split in chunks
 * Always show up the Customize button under the Appearance menu

#### 1.2.3 : July 20, 2021

 * Code clean-up

#### 1.2.2 : November 27, 2020

 * fix buttons css

#### 1.2.1 : February 20, 2020

 * capitalPdangit(readme.txt)
 * bump Tested up to

#### 1.2.0 : July 24, 2018

 * Imp: improve WP PHPcs
 * Imp: autodetect parent screenshot size
 * Imp: create child screenshot png also from parent jpeg files
 * Imp: improve javascript
 * Imp: improve child badge
 * Rm: remove translations already hosted on wp.org

#### 1.1.1 : September 20, 2017

 * Imp: add hueman-pro as special theme

#### 1.1.0 : June 08, 2017

 * Imp: generated screenshot size now follows latest wp recommandations
 * Fix: cm container was partially visible in the new open custom css box

#### 1.0.15 : May 12, 2016

 * Imp: Add domainpath and textdomain to the plugin header

#### 1.0.14 : May 06, 2016

 * Add: Improved child-theme creation for Hueman theme
 * Imp: small css fixes
 * Imp: restrict plugin scope to is_admin() == true
 * Upd: update Tested up to WordPress version version 4.5.1

#### 1.0.13 : Nov 26, 2015

 * Add: Fix rtl CSS: Many thanks to [Yaacov Glezer](http://www.glezer.co.il)
 * Upd: update Tested up to WordPress version version 4.4

#### 1.0.11 : Sep 08, 2015

 * Add: Hebrew translation: Many thanks to [Yaacov Glezer](http://www.glezer.co.il)

#### 1.0.10 : May 07, 2015

 * Fix: readme typo

#### 1.0.9 : May 06, 2015

 * Add: added Portuguese and Dutch translations: Many thanks to [@wph4](http://h4bs.com/)

#### 1.0.8 : April 21, 2015

 * Fix: minor css fix to radio buttons

#### 1.0.7 : March 26, 2015

 * Fix: fix css according to some Customizr theme css in the customize

#### 1.0.6 : March 22, 2015

 * Add: added Russian and Ukrainian translations. Many thanks to [@baneff](https://wordpress.org/support/profile/baneff)

#### 1.0.5 : February 08, 2015

 * Fix: for security reasons, fallback on generic “Administrator” if no user Name
   and Last name are set
 * Fix: translations updated

#### 1.0.4 : February 02, 2015

 * Fix: fix typo while creating child-theme screenshot.png

#### 1.0.3 : February 02, 2015

 * Fix: handle parent 8 bit colormap screenshot.png

#### 1.0.2 : January 19, 2015

 * Fix: cancel button bug, css form padding

#### 1.0.1 : January 19, 2015

 * Fix: improve compatibility with PHP versions < 3.5.3
 * Fix: css, change some padding

#### 1.0.0 : January 03, 2015

 * First offical release!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.0**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **9,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   [Persian](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/),
   and [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/childify-me)
 * Tags
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/child-theme/)[child themes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/child-themes/)
   [childtheme](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/childtheme/)[childthemes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/childthemes/)
   [custom theme](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-theme/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/childify-me/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.6 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  29 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/childify-me/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  3 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/childify-me/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Rocco Aliberti ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/d4z_c0nf/)

## Support

Issues resolved in last two months:

     1 out of 1

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/childify-me/)