Working with WordPress themes
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The document explains the concept of themes and child themes in web design, emphasizing their roles in customizing website functionality and appearance. A child theme inherits features from a parent theme while allowing for safe updates without losing custom changes. The presentation aims to address common issues faced when modifying main themes and illustrates how to create a child theme simply.
Working with WordPress themes
- 1. Working with Themes Utsav Singh @Rathour http://codepixelz.com
- 2. Themes? • Are basically skins • Give customized functionality • Make our site look like they are supposed to • Make our site work like they are supposed to
- 3. Parent and Frameworks • A parent theme or Framework is a theme itself which is fully functional, but also gives you a base to create something new. • Has most of the things you would need.
- 4. Child Theme • A child theme is a theme as well but has a parent. • Takes all of its functions and styles from the parent theme • All the abilities that a regular theme would have.
- 5. What are Child Themes? • Easy to create • Inherit all the basic things from it’s parent. • Has most of the thing of it’s own, even while being empty. • Easy updating
- 6. Why this presentation? • People generally tend to work on the main theme they got, either it is premium or free. • Clients ask for something custom that needs to be worked on the original file. • Theme releases update. • Once updated all your changes are gone. (facepalm)
- 7. How does child theme come in? • Child theme lets you create your own theme under a base(parent) theme. • All your changes are under your theme. • Once parent is updated, nothing happens to the child theme. • Your theme works just as fine after updating (awesome)
- 8. Why this presentation? Out of frustation. :D
- 9. How to create a child theme? • As easy as adding style.css Just add /* Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child Theme URI: http://example.com/ Description: Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme Author: Your name here Author URI: http://example.com/about/ Template: twentytwelve Version: 0.1.0 */
- 10. Questions?