Making a Child theme

  • Resolved DAZDOREY

    (@dazdorey)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Have I got this right?

    In the Themes folder, I duplicate the Twenty Ten folder and rename it Twenty Ten-child. So I end up with 2 Theme folders (Twenty Ten and Twenty Ten-child)
    I, then, go into the css file and rename the theme information the same way as Twenty Ten-child.
    Do I also changed the name to my name?

    Is it as simply as this?

    Thanks so much!
    DAZ

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    13 years, 6 months ago

    You need not duplicate any folders.
    Here are the steps better than I can explain
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme

    CodeBotics

    (@codebotics)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    If you only want to change the CSS, then you only need style.css in theme-child. Style.css is the only required file for a child theme.

    I use the following:

    /*
Theme Name: Call it whatever you want
Author: Your Name
Description: Child theme, and anything else you want
Author URI: your URL, you don't have to add this.
Template: themename
*/

@import url(../theme/style.css);

    Then I add my custom CSS below that, and it overrides the old CSS. Any files you don’t add to your child theme just default to the original themes files 🙂

    It is worth looking at the link Andrew posted, to get a better idea of what’s going on.

    Thread Starter DAZDOREY

    (@dazdorey)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks so much for your help!

    Thread Starter DAZDOREY

    (@dazdorey)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    😉

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