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Before you know about the child theme, you must know about the parent theme. Parent theme is a
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A child theme is very important to create when you are going to modify some files of the parent theme. Upload multiple featured
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As we mentioned above it will inherit all the functionality of the parent theme and create a new separate
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theme. You can make customization and changes in this theme instead of the parent theme and keep
changes safer while updating the parent theme.

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It will take over the functionality of parent theme and you don’t need to start from scratch

Structure of Child Theme

In the child theme, you can copy all the files from the parent theme and create a custom template, but I
will recommend you to put the required files into the child theme folder. But there is also a required that
must-have in the child theme folder.

Files in Child Theme:

functions.php (required)

style.css (required)

screenshot.png (optional)

Any other files/template are optional

Let’s start with creating a child theme.

Create a Child Theme in WordPress

There are 2 methods to create child theme:

METHOD #1

Create a Child Theme in WordPress Without Plugin

Before creating a child theme without plugin, you can do it on your localhost (XAMPP) and then upload
on your live server through FTP or File Manager in cPanel.

If you still want to do it online then follow these steps:

You need FTP access details.

Login to your FTP account and Navigate to “/wp-content/themes“. I’m following to use free
twentytwentyone theme but you can select your theme. Check here for best free theme

Create a new folder like “twentytwentyone-child“. You can take another name but I recommend that
the folde name should be similar as parent theme folder name for more clarity.
Now, open this folder and create a “style.css” file with the following code.
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Twenty One Child
Theme URL: http://yourdomain.com
Description: This is the child theme of Twenty Twenty One
Theme Author: Your Name
Author URL: http://yourdomain.com
Template: twentytwentyone
Version: 1.0.0
Text Domain: twentytwentyone-child
*/

You can change the value of these fields as you want but keep in mind that, the Template field is very
important. It will be your parent theme’s folder name as you can see above in the code. This Template
field tells WordPress relation between child and parent theme.

Create another file “functions.php” in the same folder. You will see both files like this.
Now, we will enqueue the parent and child theme stylesheet with this function wp_enqueue_style().
Add the following code in the “functions.php” file to enqueue stylesheet. It will load the parent and
child theme stylesheets:

<?php

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );

function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parenthandle = 'parent-style';
$theme = wp_get_theme();
wp_enqueue_style( $parenthandle, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style
array(), // if the parent theme code has a dependency, copy it to
$theme->parent()->get('Version')
);
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_uri(),
array( $parenthandle ),
$theme->get('Version') // this only works if you have Version in th
);
}

?>
 Goto your admin dashboard and Navigate to Appearance -> Themes. You will see your child theme is
there and you can activate it by clicking on “Activate” button.

Now test your style appearence at frontend. If you found any error, ask me in the comment section.

METHOD #2

Create a Child Theme in WordPress with Plugin

Yes! you can create a child theme with a plugin. If you are a beginner then I will recommend you to use
this method to create a child theme to avoid any errors. It is a very simple method, you just have to click
on one button and it will create a child theme for you. It will copy all the required files from the parent
theme and put them in the child theme folder.

There are a lot of child theme generator plugins in the WordPress directory. You can search any of one
but I’ll suggest you this one child theme creator. I also have used this and its really simple interface.
Select that theme for which you want to create a child theme and click on the “Create Child Theme”
button. It will create a child theme in just a second for you. There are two checkboxes, you can check
them if you want to do.

Hope! you like this article, please feel free to ask me any questions related to coding in the comment
section. I’ll give you my best solution for any query. Good luck with your child theme. Happy Coding 🙂
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