How to Create a Child Theme
1.
Create the child theme directory,
which will be placed in wp-content/themes folder. The
name of your child theme directory is appended with '-child'. You will also
want to make sure that there are no spaces in your child theme directory name,
which may result in errors.
2.
The next step is to create your
child theme's stylesheet (style.css). The stylesheet must begin with the
following
/*
Theme Name: Twenty
Fifteen Child Theme
Description: Twenty
Fifteen Child Theme
Author: John Doe
Template:
twentyfifteen
Version: 1.0.0
License: GNU General
Public License v2 or later
Tags: light, dark,
two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready Text Domain:
twenty-fifteen-child
*/
Note –
Template “twentyfifteen” should be same as parent
folder name. this is case sensitive. Otherwise you will get the error “the
parent theme is missing. please install the x parent theme”
3.
Create a functions.php in your
child theme directory. The first line of your child theme's functions.php
will be an opening PHP tag (),
after which you can enqueue your parent and child theme stylesheets.
add_action(
'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function
my_theme_enqueue_styles() { wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style',
get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
?>
where parent-style In
your child code, replace the instance of 'parent-style' with 'twentyfifteen-style', like so:
parent_style
= 'twentyfifteen-style';
