Title: Create child theme from modified parent theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Create child theme from modified parent theme

 *  [VitaminDave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitamindave/)
 * (@vitamindave)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-from-modified-parent-theme/)
 * Hey,
 * I’ve been given the joyful task of getting a site that a 3rd party developed 
   from a themeforest theme through W3C validation. Unfortunately, that 3rd party
   over-wrote the parent theme styling etc instead of setting up as a child theme,
   so I can’t run the theme update that addresses a few of the W3C issues (among
   other things). Does anyone know a quick and easy way of isolating the changes
   from the files (short of individual side by side filecomparison?)
 * Thanks,
 * Dave

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-child-theme-from-modified-parent-theme/#post-3930688)
 * Sorry – there is no easy way to sort out this kind of mess. 🙁

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