Title: Help Required: Regarding Child Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help Required: Regarding Child Theme

 *  Resolved [asianurbanist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asianurbanist/)
 * (@asianurbanist)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regarding-child-theme/)
 * I have made some heavy changes to a theme in the stylesheet and the PHP files.
 * I realized, a bit too late that, if there are updates to the theme, I will have
   to redo all the modifications. I have heard about Child themes before and have
   been reading a bit about it.
 * Most people seem to be copying bits and pieces of codes which they then modify.
   My question is, can I just copy the major CSS file + all PHP files into a Child
   theme Folder?
 * Correct me if I am wrong but I understand that for the CSS that I merely have
   to point it to the original file ex:
    `@import url("../twentyten/style.css");`
 * Regarding other php files, what changes should I make to point to original php?
 * How would a particular Child theme work? Does it check every piece of code in
   original theme and then replace them with the one in the Child?
 * If the method I propose above works, it means it would basically be checking 
   all my codes. Would there be any delay in rendering the page?

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 *  [jeezyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeezyo/)
 * (@jeezyo)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regarding-child-theme/#post-2190151)
 * you need to create a new directory in the theme folder, and call it what you 
   want. put in a style.css, with this at the top, but change it to name the theme
   what you want. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme)
 * Basically, the way it works is that if there were php template files that you
   wanted modified, you would copy those files into the child theme, and then modify
   those as you wish. wordpress will first look in you child theme folder for the
   template, before it looks to the parent theme. same thing for the css. just add
   any style in there that you would like to overwrite or create new, and they will
   take priority over the parent theme.
 * No load delay, no need to copy over anything that you dont plan to modify.
 *  Thread Starter [asianurbanist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asianurbanist/)
 * (@asianurbanist)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regarding-child-theme/#post-2190159)
 * Thanks jeezyo. While I understood the above, I was doing something wrong.
    I 
   had no idea how critical was the line template in the code below:
 * /*
    Theme Name: XXX Theme URI: XXX Description: Business & Portfolio Themes. 
   Author: XXX **Template: (needs to be the exact folder name of the parent template)**
   Author URI: XXX */

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regarding-child-theme/#post-2190159)
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