Title: Making a Child Theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Making a Child Theme

 *  Resolved [CreativeWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativewp/)
 * (@creativewp)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-child-theme-1/)
 * Thank you for making this plugin.
 * I used it, and instead of creating a child theme, it just makes a full copy of
   the theme I am trying to make a Child of. Any ideas?
 * Thanks,
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-theme/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Muller Digital Inc.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muller-digital/)
 * (@muller-digital)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-child-theme-1/#post-4955626)
 * Hi CreativeWP,
    Thanks for using duplicate theme. Duplicate theme does create
   a duplicate of the theme to make the child theme. It does reference the original
   theme as the parent theme, but If you do not want to alter the files of the parent
   theme, you can delete the files you do not want to alter from the child theme.
   That will ensure the child theme uses the parents’ theme files and not the child
   themes’ files. Hope that helps.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-a-child-theme-1/#post-4955626)
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