Wordpress Child Theme | What Is It? Do You Need It? How To Make It!

[@ryansymons8915]

I just like how Ferdy simplifies everything, but still covers all the right points.

[@ferdycom]

Thank you! That means a lot to me 😊

[@jarwanto4274]

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[@Godinary]

Serious, the moment I see his video, I smile because already set my mind that am gonna get the explanation so well

[@mpess8569]

With less then 2 min you already answered my question and helped me to understand that I don't need child theme. thx very much!

[@mass627]

Man, after watching thousands of tutorials to learn more about WP , your videos are the best! You explain in such an easy way to understand! You are great!

[@angelyherrera7541]

Thank you THANK YOU so much. 😭😭 I set up my entire website and was making changes to the code and learned that I needed a child theme to prevent my changes from getting deleted during updates. I was so overwhelmed I didn't know where to start. God bless you man 🙏🏽

[@christinaslick987]

Finally, an excellent explanation unlike the other 3 videos I wasted my time watching. Thanks!

[@senne3315]

Wow, this is amazing!! Really, really helpful. I tried to find how to build a child theme previously, but it was way too complicated. This is soooo easy. Thank you, subbed.

[@zoechristian840]

By far the best Divi trainer on the internet!

[@carrerac]

I Love the way you always stay simple in your tutorials and always get the point quickly!!! thank you!! Great Information!!

[@cnlawrence1183]

Thank you so much for bringing to light the Child Theme Configurator plugin. This was exactly the way to go instead of following line by line from the WP documentation.

[@Nelmedia]

I used to always use a child theme (in fact, I even bought the Pro version of Child Theme Configurator), but not really anymore... Nowadays, I use a good theme (like Astra or OceanWP) that allows me to do my customizations in the Customizer. If I need to add code to functions.php, I simply use a plugin (wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/) and to be able to "modify" the structure of a page (besides using a page builder like Elementor), the I use Toolset (allows me to create custom types and queries with Views)... So, I would only need Child Theme Configurator if I need to make changes directly to a php file (which, like I said, with the above mentioned tools, hasn't happen for quite a while)...

[@brianlee415]

Can you do a video tutorial on this?

[@NelmediaCa]

@@brianlee415 you mean about using Toolset to create a page or an element's layout? I unfortunately don't have the time right now... maybe in a month... Meanwhile, you can always look at Toolset (more particularly Views) tutorials...

[@acehobojoe]

Do you use the pro versions?

[@NelmediaCa]

@@acehobojoe I have the Pro version of Child Theme Configurator, though I don't use it too often anymore... I have the full lifetime Toolset account and I have the Pro version of Elementor (among other things ;) ).

[@sjaaksafari709]

Dude this was so helpful. I was looking for a way to preserve my edits in the functions.php file after an update and I also wanted to make it very clear for dummies what type of code does what exactly without using the comment brackets above, inside or below the actually code. I'm gonna install that plugin right away! Thanks a lot man

[@khawariqbal2714]

Straight forward... Quick... cover all points...Highly recommend for all...great and very helpful.👍👍👍👍👍

[@AljaleyaTV]

Your the only one explain it in the right way

[@vilassa]

Great as always Ferdy! Making my first steps much more secure with your tutorials. Thanks!

[@yudimarris3119]

thankyou so much for your explanation, very easy to understand for me..

[@arifmahmud1149]

Thanks a lot for a understandable creation! Best wishes.

[@haskelldigitalmarketing]

great tutorial. but I don't understand the end.. I need to copy all my files in the files section from the original to the child theme?

[@openclassusa3534]

Great video!! (first time in you tube I see somebody answers the questions from the beguinning)

[@alexchiuac88]

Another great video Ferdy, thank you👍👍

[@Facemix]

Best explanation! Thank you soo much man! Finally, I know the difference...

[@thebmusproject]

Nice explanation and demo! Thanks!

[@danielsabiah]

Best explanation by far! Thank you!

[@AkmaWel]

good explanation on child theme, now i got an idea, thanks!!!

[@iarsalanahmed]

This is amazing. Thank you Ferdy!

[@ibrahimbaig8052]

Good explaining! Thanks for saving my time.😇

[@huzaifakhan760]

You are an amazing person and a great teacher!!!

[@ferdycom]

Thank you! 😃

[@CheckTesting1]

Hope your very well Ferdy? 😃 Brilliant tutorials, keep up the good work.

[@siddeswarakoppisetti1503]

Awesome Tutorial. The explanation was simple and crisp and easy to understand. Thank you!

[@randomshorts2623]

simple and helpful video thank you so mutch

[@mohsinworld]

Awesome tutorial. Super easy to understand. Thanks Ferdy

[@imcalledsose]

Thank you! Just what I needed

[@tommyowen529]

Thanks, man! Very helpful.

[@FarrucasDuo]

quick and easy to understand, thank you! 😀

[@passthepuck]

Can I edit my child theme with Elementor?

[@successbydesign3483]

Awesome video as always

[@pythusiast4701]

very helpful and awesome. thanks

[@3rdtwirl494]

I have my first client who bought a theme. Do you have a tutorial so I can follow ?

[@elainekim3992]

Super clear, thank you for getting right to the main points!

[@droll8755]

is it safe to migrate to child theme when you have already built all the website on the parent theme? won't I lose all my configurations? thanks for the vid!

[@Megane920]

Hi Ferdy, thanks for you video. I have a problem when trying to edit css in my child theme. i can't find the "editor" option under appearance...

[@danielwatson6529]

Awesome, excited to watch the tuts where you add your own php etc. using plug ins all the time is a mess and i want to learn Dev Skills

[@anoniem012]

Thanks man very clear, dankje wel.

[@beeblebrox82]

Thank you, Ferdy!

[@lindaaae]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@zgamer3600]

This video helped me a lot, thank you so much! Liked and suscribed

[@GeoffreyProfessional]

Thanks for this, Fredy!

[@ivanovicdj]

I am having some problems here. The child theme supposedly works, but as soon as I open some of the posts on my website they are messed up. The Navigation bar, Sidebars, everything is kinda messed up when opening a single post. When I open the home part of the website it's still intact. I have removed the child theme and installed a fresh one again just to check, and I have those problems from the start. I am using the NewsCard theme as my parent theme and when I use the full version, not the child, everything is fine.

[@ramunsas]

Hi there! Is there any chance to hide text "This is a child theme of Divi"? Great video btw!

[@jeffrey6283]

Ferdy! Can you tell me why I don't see the editor in the left menu? Unfortunately this is of no use to me if I don't have the editor in the left menu. Hopefully you can respond to this! Thanks!

[@lesliehuhn7998]

On my side it shows: This theme doesn't need a parent theme style.css file for its appearance. The configurator has selected "Do not add parent template handling" for the "Parent template handling" option (see step 6, below). And in step 6 there is the third one clicked automatically. Can you explain what this means and if I still can change the css?

[@Marrvmastery]

I tried to add my parent theme but it's bringing that the theme had a bug, what do I do? I can't proceed

[@josephfelixbamba9603]

Ferdy you're the best !!

[@oceanFroce]

Superb

[@AllanLeonardJr]

Thanks for the insight!

[@MrAnuragindia]

So do I have to copy all the files from the parent theme to child theme?

[@weezyf775]

after analyzing your theme, the 5th setting "sleect where to save new styles" is confusing me. does it mean a seperate style sheet from the theme you analyzed? If so, wouldn't i want a separate stylesheet to avoid issues when updating like you stated at the start?

[@TTunah]

Hi! Love your cat profile pic. I think the "separate style sheet" option is pretty advanced. Like if you wanted to have 2+ child themes and start the second one with a duplicate of the first. Just pick the first option and run!

[@elnurakazybek8246]

THE BEST OF THE BEST!

[@nammaoorurockers3219]

I just want to know how add json file in child theme

[@StrzelbaStian]

Is it possible to activate a child theme in the files?

[@matthewdarke4069]

Can I delete the plugin afterwards?

[@rainbowkitchen300]

Amazing video?? Do you have a video on how to customize BuddyPress using the divi builder?

[@prasadgayan4936]

Great video. Thanks !

[@sydneystepney8728]

What do you do when your child theme doesn't exactly look like the parent theme? For example, my font isn't the same on my child theme as my parent theme.

[@alizaidonline]

your videos are preccious gems

[@santiagoespinosa6417]

It helped me a lot, thaks!!!

[@ravinduabeygunasekara833]

GREAT TUTORIAL! Your wordpress is so fast! But mine is a bit slow. On what does the wordpress speed depend on? server speed? I use a very fast internet connection.

[@oluseunakintayo3060]

What a lifesaver!

[@davidestate]

Question.. I purchased a theme which also came with a child theme. I didn't upload the child theme but instead just the main theme. I didn't change any code on my own but I did design the site. Now the site has an needed up. If I install the child theme, how does the child them received thr needed update also?

[@postnatalmotcoach1006]

Hello , can you let me know if there is a link back to the cpanel? I will have to do this myself as the guy who “designed” the site was fired . Anything I need to know re xref back to the original hosting ? Thank you

[@RiderMeteor650]

Hello Ferdy, I have one querry. I have installed the "Child Theme" in my website. from now on whatever changes I will be making using DIVI Visual Builder do I need to do that keeping "DIVI THEME" activated or "DIVI CHILD THEME" activated? Please let me know thank you.

[@TTunah]

Divi Child Theme

[@batlin]

It's acting strange for me... I created a child theme but all the customisation changes I made to the original theme are gone somehow, and it goes back to the default sample content. Maybe something weird with the Twenty Twenty Four theme. UPDATE: It seems to be due to Twenty Twenty-Four being a "block theme". I'm not really sure what the difference is, but anyway, I was able to use another plugin called "Create Block Theme" to export the (accidentally) altered theme and create a child theme with my changes. A bit weird, but anyway. I wish there was an easy way to work on a theme while the site is live without activating it, or to operate on a staging version of the site easily and then swap the changes in.

[@BDLAD]

you have cleared my confusion

[@mikek6998]

How do I retain layout/design once I import demo content? I’ve tried export/import aspects from child theme, I’m doing something wrong. I just want the demo pages/content, want to retain header/footer/menu. Thanks

[@dennisreynolds6915]

What happens to elementor website if elementor goes out of business? Will site still work? Thanks, Trib from Norway

[@Kids-Education-Etertainment]

I really like the chid theme ferdy and the strategy you use to teach in all your videos. You are such a great teacher..! Do you have any video in your youtube channel about ( How to make Login and Registration form in your website) . I mean a login and regisration form that will make you access contentent on services and blog page only. If you do not login& Register you will only have access to other pages on your website but restricted on servicess & blog page. If you don't any video about Login & Registration form, can you please make one using any of your theme...

[@SaifulIslam-mw5us]

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[@sarazubac8680]

Are child themes necessary for the Hello theme for Elementor? Can we just rely on adding custom CSS coding within appearance --> customize and advanced CSS section within the page builder?

[@mamtarawat2917]

As i saw on this video, there is only 2 files in child theme. For editing in theme, can we need to add files in child theme like header.php, footer.php, content.php etc. Before deleting the plugin, is it necessary to add all files in child theme.

[@ciciwnwn4109]

Hi, I made my wordpress in 2019, but it's suggesting me to create a child theme for updating existing theme, is it necessary to create one since I have no programming knowledge?

[@dozadetrezire7455]

Hi!I have one question..i'm a begginer in web dev.. i started to work on a wordpress site..the problem is that i havent worked on a child theme..i've worked directly on the parent theme (i didnt know to much about child themes..)...this theme now has a problem that must be solved by the theme's developer.. Question: If i create a child theme, this child theme will inherit the error from its parent..if that error is solved in the parent theme is solved by the theme's developer, will the error also dissapear from the child theme? what should i do in this case? create the child theme and work on it? Or do i have to wait for the error problem to be solved in the parent theme so that i can create a child theme? Tnx..

[@financialadvisor2035]

Hi, I need your help to create Child themes. How to connect with you ?

[@idreeskhan78]

Hi Ferdy, Can we make child theme and copy all files from main theme. And then delete the main theme. Then do we are the owner of this child theme? Will there be any copyright issue if we name this child theme with our own and this will be no more child theme? This is the question regarding if we want to make our own theme in the way I explained and you did in the video. Waiting for your kind response. Thanks

[@zarinaelkabdani]

Thank you for the tutorial!

[@cristif92]

Can you remove something from main theme, in the child theme ? can you copy all the files, even js files ?

[@TTunah]

You would press F12 to see exactly what part of the main theme you don't want. Then in the style.css file, use the same CSS term, like "p" for paragraph or whatever, and say "display:none" to not use that part of the parent theme anymore. It will accomplish the same thing.

[@cristif92]

@@TTunah well, the problem it is that I wanted to bypass a sticky javascript file, which I find it outdated and I couldn't debuged myself, and I couldn't find all the places it is used. The soluton it was to just hide it, where it is registered, but in the process it may create a redux class issue. :/

[@Vikasseo1]

Wonderful

[@NiconMohammed.]

Great Great video!!

[@tyagrajbhatt603]

Sir...I want to ask one thing...!! like how can I add my some extra features which isn't not in parent theme & which type like we can add easly in other frameworks like laravel or codeignitor ? or one thing like how to add custom PHP features in wordpress?

[@danielalc2071]

very good! i like a tutorial over the child theme how its works in avada! thanks!

[@joricksikkes]

Bedankt Ferdy!

[@intech7863]

I hear from other costumers Child theme is getting unstable with time .Use Child theme to test yes but for serous site pick other one

[@manigopal89]

i did the same but there are some files and folders which is not showing in Files tab to copy files i used OnePress free wordpress theme

[@manigopal89]

@Ferdy Korpershoek it is that it doesnt show all files and folders from theme (parent) to create child theme.

[@MubashirAli-ii1mm]

Can you share more information about child theme? In which you work with php

[@ferdycom]

Yes, in a tutorial that is coming soon :)

[@vlog_with_froggy]

I have question like if i created a theme from scratch so i design it the way i want so why do i need child theme if i dont want any modification?

[@ferdycom]

In that case you don't need a child theme 😊

[@vlog_with_froggy]

@@ferdycom Thanks 😊

[@vijayrawat9412]

ferdy sir im your follower for a long time and make it a point to watch your each & every video but now i m starting my own blog on generatepress could u plz make video on generatepress , how to make blog using generatepress free theme

[@abdulhannan288]

so,if we don't know coding and we are doing customization from some page builder or from theme customizer itsself we don't need a child theme? is it right?

[@fantom2967]

do i need child theme when using plugin like Microthemer to edit css?

[@sg3-h7u]

helpful thank you!

[@toryrae6091]

LIFE SAVER .

[@kapilso]

PLs pls can u tell me how to Product Catagory description (woo-commerce) from top of the page to Bottom part. do I need a child theme for that? how and where do I edited the changes ?? Also I need to sell mobile covers so how can I get 1) mobile brand and 2) Model no . as a dropdown choice and in single product page do I need a plugin because variations are too many to handle

[@ashushrvstv]

Thanks Ferdy

[@bonjour570]

I came looking for copper (childe’s theme) and found gold

[@sagarakumara1135]

nice explanations