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

Posted by Pete Cass
Pete Cass
16,656 Points

how to set up a child theme

In the video we go through how to create a child theme. I've done this and copied the style .css file from the downloads section into the folder.

Sweet. but now i want to make a child of a different theme. What do i need to change in the style.css file for this to work?

thanks folks

1 Answer

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Pete,

If you mean change your child theme to use a different parent theme, you should just need to edit the Template line, e.g.

Template:     twentyfifteen

Here's the info from the Codex.

Hope that helps.

-Rich