The issue, is that your customizations will be overwritten and lost. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create theme and in so doing, immunize your site against the issue of overwritten theme changes.. WordPress child theme is theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the theme. basic understanding of HTML and CSS is required to customize the design of theme and knowledge of PHP is not necessary.. theme consists of directory and two files style css and functions.php functions php file is required to register parent and child theme's stylesheets and style css file is used to add additional CSS styling.. You will need to replace Theme Name, URI, Author and other details with the relevant to your theme.. The in my example is Twenty Sixteen, so Template will be twentysixteen. This is the final step, we going to enqueue to the parent and child theme stylesheets... By version updates to the theme, With child themes, you can adapt any WordPress theme altering navigation menus, sidebars, custom pages and much more, in way that's durable and wo not be overwritten. He's the founder of JustLearnWP com, where you can find articles and tutorials about WordPress and Blogging.
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