WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

Creating a child theme

Developers who are new to WordPress may assume that this is a considerable process involving many steps and configurations. However, it's a straightforward process that takes less than a minute. Let's create a child theme called WPQuickStart for the existing Twenty Seventeen theme.

The first step is creating a directory in the wp-content/themes directory and naming it wpquickstart. Next, we need to create a style.css file inside the wpquickstart directory and add the following comment:

/*Theme Name: WPQuickStartTheme URI:Description: Twenty Seventeen Child ThemeAuthor: Rakhitha NimeshAuthor URI: http://example.comTemplate: twentyseventeenVersion: 1.0.0 */

The highlighted line in the code defines the directory as a child ...