Child Themes in WordPress

Child Themes in WordPress — a practical guide to WordPress child theme with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Child themes override selected templates/styles while inheriting the parent. Great for client customizations.

Steps

1. Create a child folder with style.css pointing to the parent Template.
2. Enqueue parent+child styles properly in functions.php.
3. Override only the templates you need.

Child style.css

/*
Theme Name: Acme Child
Template: acme-theme
Text Domain: acme-child
*/