Title: Duplicate Theme
Author: Muller Digital Inc.
Published: <strong>October 17, 2013</strong>
Last modified: November 15, 2013

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# duplicate-theme

 By [Muller Digital Inc.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/muller-digital/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/duplicate-theme/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of March 7, 2024 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e78a83edce1ea5e8077f789b8efb77f167add52fe2ac19e7475ab2b3b170caec?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Perfect, thank you](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-thank-you-9/)󠁿

 [Jimako](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimako/) September 3, 2016

It does exactly what should do. Clone / Copy theme to avoid problems from future
original theme update before checking them. I remembered this plugin from some time
ago, but I wasn’t able to find it here by searching in plugin directory. I found
it again thanks some article about this. Great work and thank you again

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bd607a01a1ae12fb20a6d7f1b0fcb42aff995d30fa76fa43d4a370d85fa05135?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Copies everything thereby isolating Child from future Parent updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copies-everything-thereby-isolating-child-from-future-parent-updates/)󠁿

 [IRD-dev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ird-dev/) September 3, 2016 1 reply

While your plugin does successfully create a “child theme”, it seems to DUPLICATE*
every* directory and file from the parent, instead of merely creating a new STYLE.
CSS in the child’s root directory with one simple reference to utilize the parent
theme’s STYLE.CSS. My point / concern is, especially for those who may be unfamiliar,
that the intrinsic behaviour of WordPress is to first utilize files that exist in
the CHILD theme directory .. regardless of the same filename existing in the Parent
theme directory. Hence, once a Theme core/parent gets updated, one’s WordPress site
will continue to only load the now-antiquated files in the Child — files that were
copied at an earlier timeframe using this plugin. In summary, once a Child theme
is created using this plugin, all future updates to the theme’s parent will be ignored.
Proof is in this article: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-themes-and-php-
pages

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great Plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-12361/)󠁿

 [Matthew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kidsguide/) February 7, 2017

This is a great plugin for child themes!

 [ Read all 10 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/duplicate-theme/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Duplicate Theme” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Muller Digital Inc. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/muller-digital/)

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### Interested in development?

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

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.6**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.7.41**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/advanced/)