Using Child Themes

Part of the 2018 WordCamp Orlando Developer's Workshop, Adam Soucie guides you through the process of creating a child theme for your WordPress website

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1. USING CHILD THEMES WORDCAMP ORLANDO 2018
2. USING CHILD THEMES A LITTLE ABOUT ME ▸ Front-End Developer at WebDevStudios ▸ Side hustle at Impossibly Creative ▸ WordCamp Orlando organizer @AdamSoucie
3. WHAT? TWO THEMES?
4. USING CHILD THEMES A WHAT NOW? ▸ Why a child theme? ▸ Don’t want to mess with the original CSS ▸ You’re using a framework ▸ What’s a child theme? ▸ A theme dependent on another theme ▸ Inherits functionality from parent @AdamSoucie
5. Let’s hook up our child theme
6. USING CHILD THEMES SETTING UP A CHILD THEME ▸ 2 files ▸ style.css ▸ functions.php ▸ Example: https://github.com/AdamSoucie/WCOrlando2018 @AdamSoucie
7. YUP. THAT’S IT?
8. USING CHILD THEMES OVERWRITING FUNCTIONALITY ▸ Adds custom functionality ▸ Must follow the exact naming conventions to overwrite ▸ Find parent theme file ▸ Create the same folder structure in child theme as parent theme ▸ Name file the exact same name @AdamSoucie
9. NOW we’re done.