Hi everyone in this video I'm going to be
going over how to create a child theme
for your WordPress website now you might
be asking yourself why do i need to
create a child theme website
well consider this scenario that you've
got a wonderful website working you've
got your theme you've got all your
Styles customized you know your fonts
your colors and all that stuff and then
the theme developer comes out with the
update for the theme and you happily
click on the Update button wordpress
does its this thing and you are now left
with a theme that has been reset to
default settings so all of your
customizations are now
gone and now you have to start from
scratch child theme prevents all that you
can edit your child theme without
affecting the parenting the parent theme
can be updated without affecting the
child theme and all of your
customizations so it's a great way to
modify your theme without affecting all
your hard work so let's get started on
how to create a wordpress child theme
so first start off you go right to the
source you go to codex that
wordpress.org and i'll post this link in
the description below and wordpress does
a great job of telling you why use a
child theme how to create a child theme
all the components that need to put in
it all that good stuff and for that you
need four components you need the child
theme directory or the folder you need
the style.css and you need a function
dot PHP within the style dot CSS the
fourth component is actually calling or
naming inside the CSS file you have to
name the parent theme that you want to
create the child for that's the fourth
component and then there's some other
stuff that you have to put into
functions to make sure you're calling
the right style.css but let's say you
don't want to go through this process
there are two great plugins that i
recommend that you can use that do the
exact same thing so let's take a look at
those i'm over on my website i've
installed these two plugins once called
child theme configurator the other one
is called child themify so let's take a
look at child themify so to create a
theme with child theme with I you go
under themes appearance themes let's
pick the 2016 theme that the very bottom
there's a button here that says create a
child theme you click on that will say
what do you want to name your child team
will do 16 child
let's go and your child team was created
successfully so then we go back to
themes
and here it is right here 16 child now
you could go ahead and activate it or
live preview it and then you can start
your customizations when wordpress comes
out with an update for 2016 theme your
child theme will not be affected
so let's take a look at child theme
configurator which I prefer for that you
gotta go to tools child themes ones here
you want to create a new child theme
there are other actions that you can do
you free to take a look at those but
we're in the were looking at how to
create a new child theme so you click
that button you select your theme that
you want to create a child of and we'll
do the 2015 click the analyze button
gives you nice green checkmark it clear
to go it also pre fills in all the
information that i took from the parent
so to directly from the 2015 theme and
also pre filled in the new theme
directory that you can and you can
certainly edit that if you'd like it
created a style dot CSS it created the
word press Q system or you can still the
old do the old way
import because you need to get the
parent style sheet of the parent styles
into your child theme and you can use
one of these two ways although I prefer
the wordpress recommended way which is
the queue system and then you click down
the arrow here and it prefilled again
all of the information that I got from
the 2015 theme you can change this if
you'd like but i'll keep it as default
and then the version you can change as
well whatever you feel like putting in I
usually put in one point out for the
start and then i create new child theme
and then go your child team 2015 child
has been created always preview people
before you click live
make sure all of your pieces of there
since I'm not using this theme it
doesn't really matter to me but for you
you want to make sure you want to
preview it and then if everything looks
great save and activate but i'll click
the X so there you go
those are a couple of ways in which to
create a child theme for wordpress
website so we looked at the doing it
manually through wordpress itself and if
you're not up for that part of it or
that challenge if you will
you can certainly use one of the two of
these plugins to create your own very
own child theme
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