When it comes to building a site with WordPress and looking for some coding-level modifications, we all ( WordPress Users ) have heard about the child theme to avoid losing the changes by updating a plugin or theme. As it seems, a child theme plays a vital role in a WordPress site.
What is a child theme?
The meaning of the child theme is inherent in its term. A child theme is a WordPress theme that inherits everything from its parent theme and allows to extend of the theme or a plugin.
How to get a child theme?
Sometimes a child theme comes along with a theme or theme authors store the child theme in their publicly accessible repository for downloading by a user when needed.
However, if there is a way to create a child theme rather than searching for a child theme of a parent theme, then it would be a time saver approach.
Fastest way of creating a Child theme
In this article, I will share the fastest and easiest way to create a child theme through a plugin that I found while exploring plugins in the WordPress repository.
Installing the plugin
Go through the following steps to install a plugin to create a child theme:
- Navigate to the WP Admin Dashboard > Plugins > Add New screen
- Search for the Child Theme in the search field
- Choose the WP Child Theme Generator plugin by WEN Solutions
- Click on the Install Now and then Activate button
Once the plugin is activated, two menus will be added. One on the Topbar and the other one as a sub-menu of the Appearance menu.
Create a Child theme
To create a child theme in the fastest way:
- Hover the “Make Child theme” topbar menu
- Hover again on the “Create & Activate” submenu of the aforementioned menu
- Choose your desired theme to create its child theme
- Visit the Appearance > Themes menu to ensure whether the theme has been created
Here I have chosen the Twenty Twenty-Three theme to create its child theme.
Additional Info
If you wish to add your own content in the child theme, like the Theme Name, Image/Screenshot, Theme URI, Author URI, etc, then navigate to the Appearance > Child Theme Gen screen.
Add information in each field as per your preference:
After incorporating the necessary info as desired, the final result will resemble the screenshot provided below.
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