Title: [Plugin: Virtual Theme] Child themes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Virtual Theme] Child themes

 *  [nerdflu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerdflu/)
 * (@nerdflu)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-virtual-theme-child-themes/)
 * First, this plugin is exactly what I needed 🙂 So massive thanks!
 * I noticed someone posted on here a few weeks ago about child themes… and I think
   you said you havent worked with child themes much, I bet you probably know more
   about them then I do, but I’ll just write a super breif run down on why they 
   are kick ass for anyone who has never used them.
 * Instead of copying a complete theme and renaming it.. you just create a child
   theme by adding a new theme folder and a new style.css.. and in that css you 
   declair the parent theme.. WordPress then uses the parent theme for everything
   except the files you overright in your child theme… So if I create a file header.
   php in the child theme.. it overrights the header in the parent theme.. Making
   network wide updates much easier down the track.
 * So what I’m trying to do is have one main theme.. and then with your plugin, 
   select 2 child themes for different cities with slight variations… Your plugin
   lets me choose the child themes, but then it doesn’t actually use them.. I don’t
   think I’m doing anything wrong in declairing my child theme…
 * Anyways… Hopefully I’ll find another way around it… But I just thought I’d say
   something cause this plugin would be even more awesome & useful with child theme
   support…
 * Cheers,
    Mike
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/virtual-theme/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/virtual-theme/)

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 *  Thread Starter [nerdflu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerdflu/)
 * (@nerdflu)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-virtual-theme-child-themes/#post-2318168)
 * fyi.. to get around it.. I used a hacky line in my header –
 * <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’);?
   >/<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>.css” />
 * Then in virtual theme I just made the tagline for each city what the css is called.
 * haha… I’m such an amature.

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