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Child Theme Wizard

Description

The Child Theme Wizard lets you create a new child theme without the need for additional tools, right from within the WordPress admin interface. Once activated you can find it under Tools – Child Theme Wizard.

Specify a parent theme, customise options such as title and description and click Create Child Theme. Upon success you will find your new theme under Appearance – Themes.

You have the option to include GPL License Terms if you wish. The Wizard will automatically create a thumbnail too. In future versions I may include an image uploader for this feature.

To find out more about Child Themes and why they are important please read https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Screenshots

  • create a Child Theme with just one click
  • the wizard was successful
  • you also get a nice thumbnail with your new child theme

Installation

  1. Either: Upload the entire folder child-theme-wizard to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Or: download the ZIP file, then head over to Plugins – Add New – Install, then browse to your file
  3. Or: from Plugins – Add New, search for “child theme wizard”, to find this plugin and hit “install”
  4. Then: Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  5. You can find it under Tools – Child Theme Wizard

Reviews

2 septembra, 2023 1 reply
Two websites with wordpress 6.3 and no problems at all.. Very impressive this child theme is truly a wizard… it is responsive, all my menus were in place links, pictures, sliders and videos.. Thank you
5 julija, 2021
I actually installed another plugin before this one. I wanted to check theme overrides on a VPS (Dreamhost) install. This worked, the other plugin did not! It was simple to use, although if a link to the page to generate could be placed on the plugin listing page, that’d be fantastic. One other minor comment, is that I feel all themes should be lower-case and it generated an uppercase folder… wp-content/themes/Twenty-Twenty-Child Really every theme should have this built-in, it’s a great utility and saves a lot of boilerplate generation.
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Contributors & Developers

“Child Theme Wizard” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.4

  • defined the preivously undefined variable $parent_style (thanks, Marcin!)
  • updated links to WordPress Dev Docs

1.3

  • tested compatibility with WordPress 5.1
  • updated link to Codex
  • added version query as suggested in Codex as of 2019

1.2

  • corrected a spelling mistake (thanks, Cory!)

1.1

  • the parent theme is now queued via functions.php

1.0

  • Initial Release