Title: Save modified theme as child theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Save modified theme as child theme

 *  [murielleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murielleh/)
 * (@murielleh)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-modified-theme-as-child-theme/)
 * I forgot about child themes and modified a theme. Can I save it after the fact
   as a child theme and if so, how?
    Thank you. (My site is still only local hosted
   so no link)

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-modified-theme-as-child-theme/#post-6306417)
 * When you create your child theme, make a copy of every file that you modified
   over to your child theme folder. If you made changes to the style.css file, and
   if you can figure out what changes you made, then just copy over those changes
   to your child theme’s style.css file. Otherwise, you’ll have to copy over the
   entire contents of the parent theme’s style.css into your child theme’s style.
   css file.
 *  Thread Starter [murielleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murielleh/)
 * (@murielleh)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-modified-theme-as-child-theme/#post-6306536)
 * Thank you CrouchingBruin

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