Title: Child theme Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Child theme * [Kimbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimbert/) * (@kimbert) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/) * Hello Kathryn Our site is now loading correctly. * [http://www.galerieimbert.com](http://www.galerieimbert.com) * thank you for the information on how to take off the dates. I would like to create a child theme, I think, and have looked in the codex but do not understand a few things. * for ex the twentyfifteen that I see in wp-content/themes are these the files to use to make the child theme in case of updating and losing changes? * And do I just change their names? * Thank you Kathleen Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [sacredpath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/) * (@sacredpath) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6543974) * Hi there, for a basic child theme, I would suggest using one of the child theme creation plugins. * [Child Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) [Child Theme creation plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=child+theme) * That will create a child theme folder and put in a style.css file for you to start with. Which other files you will need to copy over depends on what all you are wanting to do to your child theme. * Thread Starter [Kimbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimbert/) * (@kimbert) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6543996) * Thank you for praying for me Sacredpath I am using the Pictorico theme and my site is [http://www.galerieimbert.com](http://www.galerieimbert.com) with wp4,3 * I have 3 folders in the Themes named twentyfifteen, twentyfourteen and twentyfirteen * Are these the ones I use and append-child on them? And once I have changed my css (if I ever can get there) do I just copy it into the folder? * thank you for your help Kathleen * Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/) * (@zoonini) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6544070) * > I have 3 folders in the Themes named twentyfifteen, twentyfourteen and twentyfirteen * Are these the ones I use and append-child on them? * No, those are the three latest default WordPress themes. If you’re using Pictorico you won’t need them and shouldn’t touch them. * What you’d want to do is create a new folder called pictorico-child. * If you are creating your child theme manually instead of using a plugin, here are some guides that may help get you started: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/) [http://vimeo.com/39023468](http://vimeo.com/39023468) * I also gave a talk about child themes that may help clarify things: [http://wordpress.tv/2015/05/12/kathryn-presner-getting-comfortable-with-child-themes/](http://wordpress.tv/2015/05/12/kathryn-presner-getting-comfortable-with-child-themes/) * > And once I have changed my css (if I ever can get there) do I just copy it > into the folder? * You only need to add your **CSS changes** to your child theme – the bits of CSS that you want to override. For example, if you wanted to change the colour of the site title, you would add the CSS to do that to your child theme. You don’t need to copy the parent’s styles into the child, only the pieces that you want to change. * Let me know how it goes! * Thread Starter [Kimbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimbert/) * (@kimbert) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6544151) * Hello Kathryn, * I have changed themes but have a question on child themes again…I have registered on a site that rates business experience with clients and it has given me a html code to insert into my home page page. Now do I do a child theme home page for this? * thank you for the info, Kimbert `wwww.galerieimbert.com` * Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/) * (@zoonini) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6544152) * Try asking in the forum for your new theme as the developer is familiar with their theme’s file structure and is best placed to offer support. You’ll also need to tell the developer where in the HTML structure you were told to place the code – the place that gave you the code can give you guidance on that. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Child theme’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/pictorico/1.09.7/screenshot.png) * Pictorico * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/pictorico/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/pictorico/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/pictorico/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/pictorico/reviews/) ## Tags * [child theme creation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme-creation/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/) * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-173/#post-6544152) * Status: not resolved