Sometimes you may want to modify a WordPress theme beyond what the customizer allows. In these instances, you may have to modify the code of your WordPress theme. It’s best practice to create a child theme prior to modifying any of your theme’s code so as to prevent your changes from being lost when updates are performed.
- First, you’ll want to modify the files through your host’s file manager or by connecting our hosting provider with FTP.
- Next, you’ll navigate to the wp-content/themes folder for your WordPress website.
- Then, you’ll want to create your child theme folder. A popular naming scheme for child themes is ParentTheme-child, where “ParentTheme” is the name of your theme.
- Once that folder is created, go into it and create a style.css file.
- Inside of style.css you will add a stylesheet header containing metadata about your theme. Below is an example using the Twenty Nineteen theme as a parent.
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Nineteen Child
Theme URI: http://www.example.com/twenty-nineteen-child/
Description: Twenty Nineteen Child Theme
Author: Your Name
Author URI: Insert your website
Template: twentynineteen
Version: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/license/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: Insert any tags you want to be associated with your theme
Text Domain: twenty-nineteen-child
*/ - Be sure you change the information in the example to be relative to your theme, and then save your style.css file.
- Next, you’ll also create a functions.php file. This will contain the PHP functions for your child theme.
- After creating your functions.php file you’ll place functions inside that add functions from your parent theme.
- First, open the functions.php file
- Then, add a function that will add your parent theme’s styles and scripts as seen below.
<?php
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’);
}
?>
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