This document discusses child themes in WordPress. It explains that child themes allow modification of a parent or main theme without changing the original files. Child themes are useful because they allow customization while still receiving updates to the parent theme. The document provides instructions for setting up a child theme, including creating style.css and functions.php files that reference the parent theme files.

1. PARENTS + CHILDREN
THEMES THAT IS
WHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT

2. WHO IS THE LEE DROZAK?
ABOUT ME
LEEDROZAK BIZ
DESIGNER, DEVELOPER + STRATEGIST
MY WP SUPERPOWER: REDESIGN
EMBRACER OF TINY (RV) LIVING
TWEETY @LEEDROZAK

3. THE TEMPLATE
HIERARCHY
MODULAR, REUSABLE FILES, USED TO GENERATE THE WEB PAGES

4. TEXT
EXIST WITHIN LOOP
index.php
search.php
404.php
front-page.php
archive.php
single.php
page.php
https://wphierarchy.com/
OUTSIDE THE LOOP
header.php
footer.php
sidebar.php
comments.php
REQUIRED
functions.php
style.css

5. THE THEME
COLLECTION OF FILES THE MODIFY THE WAY YOUR SITE IS DISPLAYED

6. WHAT ARE CHILD
THEMES
THE MODIFICATION OF THE PARENT OR MAIN THEME

7. WHY WOULD I
USE A CHILD THEME
THERE ARE MANY REASONS BUT MAINLY BECAUSE THE
NEXT DEVELOPER WILL THANK YOU

8. CREATING YOUR
CHILD(REN)
PLUGIN VS CODING DEVELOPMENT

9. TEXT
WP CHILD THEME GENERATOR

10. TEXT
THE SET-UP: wp-content
plugins
themes
index.php
parent
parent-child
style.css
functions.php

11. TEXT
STYLE.CSS /*
Theme Name: Client Biz Name
Theme URI: https://clientdomain.com/
Description: This is a styled customized theme for the Genesis Framework.
Author: Lee Drozak
Author URI: https://leedrozak.com/
Version: 1.0
Template: genesis
Template Version: 2.2.3
License: GPL-2.0+
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/

12. FUNCTIONS.PHP
<?php
//* Code goes here
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = 'parent-style'; // This is the parent theme name you are using
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
?>

13. LOAD ORDER
STYLE.CSS OVERWRITE WHILE FUNCTIONS.PHP
APPENDS

14. MORE THAN A
PRETTY FACE
CHILD THEMES ALLOW YOU TO EASILY ADD
FUNCTIONALITY

15. ACTIVATING YOUR
CHILD THEME
IF YOU CAN UPLOAD A THEME YOU CAN UPLOAD THE
PARENT YOU CAN UPLOAD THE CHILD

16. QUESTIONS
YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE HAPPINESS BAR NEXT