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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Posted by Nathan McNiece
Nathan McNiece
8,590 Points

How to create a style.css for child theme?

I have created a folder twentythirteen-child in the themes folder however I am unsure how to create or where to copy a style css sheet from.

1 Answer

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Nathan,

Inside your child theme folder, create a style.css file.

Then add this code inside, remember to set the details correctly.

/*
 Theme Name:   Theme name 
 Description:  Theme Description
 Author:       The Author
 Template:     Parent theme name - twentythirteen in your case
 Version:      1.0.0
 Tags:         
 Text Domain:  name of the folder
*/

@import url("../twentythirteen/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */