april 2016 - atlanta wordpress users group - child themes
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Child ThemesTHEMECEPTION - THEME SANITY
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Let’s Consider a Story.You’ve probably done this before…
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Enter: Child ThemesIt’s all about inheritance.
• Purpose• Extend, customize, override an existing theme (parent theme) without editing any of the theme’s files.
• To modify a theme while leaving the parent theme intact.
Child Themes
• Parent theme can be updated without worry.• Goodbye, overwritten customizations!
• Reuse the parent theme options across multiple sites!• Customize in child themes for site-specific tweaks.
• Override, extend, or replace hooks and calls.
Benefit?
Page Request
Parent Theme
Child Theme
[insert magic here]
Page Delivery
• 3 things needed to create a child theme.
How to Create?
1. A Folder
2. style.css
2. style.css
2. style.css
3. functions.php *
You’re Done!
• You created a subfolder in /wp-content/themes for your child theme.
• You created a styles.css and populated it with the comment information for WordPress to identify it as a theme (with a parent).
• You created a functions.php to store theme-specific PHP.
What did you just do?
How does this help?
Page Request
Parent Theme
Child Theme
[insert magic here]
Page Delivery
Page Request
Parent Theme
Child Theme
[insert magic here]
Page Delivery
Hooks Added Here
Hooks Overridden Here
• You can write and include your own JS, CSS, and theme files.
• You can write your own PHP functions.php settings for:• Customize the Customizer• Customize the theme display• Customize the widget areas• etc.
• And you can write your own page templates!
Features
• This is especially helpful if you have consistency on reusable components when building theme products.• Parent theme has all foundational components (widget areas, media queries, etc.)
• Child theme(s) has the unique style and theme-specific functionality.
Helpful for Frameworks
• This is especially helpful if you have consistency on reusable components when building theme products.• Parent theme has all foundational components (widget areas, media queries, etc.)
• Child theme(s) has the unique style and theme-specific functionality.
Helpful for Frameworks
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Page… Templates?