How To Create A Child Theme For WordPress - It's SUPER EASY, with this video

[@russweaver1454]

great i gave up on word press about five years ago due to trying to code, speed up, build child themes. i am back! The world of wordpress has evolved and you are helping us evolve with it Thanks

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Russ! I will tell you that WordPress is an entirely different beast now and it is dramatically different and more powerful and also easier to work with.

[@AnitabyDesign]

OMGosh! Thank you so much for this! I did all this work upgrading my site and didn't create a child theme. I knew nothing about this. I'm so glad to find out about this plugin. The best part is that it will save what I've already done. I was so afraid that I would have to start over from scratch since I was adding a child theme after the fact. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I have zero knowledge about web design and this was very easy to do.

[@ryanyu5051]

Thanks for your easy-to-understand video. I am a non-tech guy that need to buy my website. I have watched many video about child theme, and yours is the only one that I can understand and copy your steps. Appreciate your work.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks for the compliment Ryan! And that's my goal to be up to explain things in a term that anyone can understand

[@scottstough5030]

Perfectly and Quickly explained video. It calmed my anxieties of making a Child Theme.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Scott. It's crazy how easy it is but for some reason people explain in the most complicated. way.

[@enestrumicETPraxis]

I am a divi elegant themes customer and I spent so much time with their customer support and none of those mickey mouse tech. guys told me to make copies of the modified files into child theme, and again all my changes got lost after I updated parent theme. Thank you very much. You are our life savior and you should have a paypal donation button on your web. You well deserved some money from us as thank you for your help.

[@MarijanPiano]

Dude I love you haha! I almost never have success with the first tutorial video I find on KZbin - Thank you so much!

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks for trusting in me, I think if you stick around you'll see that I'm offering the best and easiest to follow solutions for WordPress problems.

[@sukirtiarora3583]

I love your tutorials Marijan.

[@harveylgordonusa]

There are many well intentioned, but poorly executed videos out there on the internet. Making a good video, on subject, clear, and "smoothly watchable" takes talent. This gentleman has it all! Thank-you. HLG

[@WPCrafter]

Wow! Thank you so much! I try to do my best with each video, and they are getting better and better each time.

[@brendawheeler7594]

I cannot tell you how many videos I have viewed, and how many posts or documents I have read regarding this topic. I had already created my website when I heard about the need of creating a child theme. Only one other video came close to your video here; but your video explained in better detail about which plugin to select for those of us who had already created our website. What you said simply gave me the reassurance that I was selecting the best/correct plugin; and that all of my hard work and time was not going to be lost when I activated the child theme. You are an excellent teacher of this topic. I am so very grateful to you!! I will definately be utilizing you as a resource as I move forward; and I will definately be recommending you to anyone I find who will benefit from your videos, etc. Thank you!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Brenda for such a nice written comment. I am grateful that you appreciate that I go into a little bit more depth when explaining something like this. Some people not so much! I'll always be here for you.

[@DeniseNorthernJimmiesMama]

Oh my gosh, you just changed my life!!! I have been struggling to understand what the heck a child theme is. And in less than 10 minutes, you have made it so clear. And a big bonus, you gave me the info on how to use it. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I'm going to be spending some time watching all of your videos in the next few days.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Denise & thanks for watching.

[@danielgandara5719]

I have to say Adam, when I want to find out something here on youtube I always type "how to do... wp crafter" Thanks once more for your tutorials. Because of your videos, I was able to learn a lot and for that, me and my family are save doing the quarantine here in Brazil. Good bless you, man! You have no idea how much I owe you.

[@mariofredrick1501]

Wordpress is great, and this channel explain its stuff better

[@minbetmedia501]

I usually have to watch like 4 videos before finding the right answer when it comes to making changes to my site. I clicked on one video (this one) for this topic and it was fast, simple, and provided the perfect amount of detail. Thank you so much!

[@WPCrafter]

I'm glad this was helpful Minbet Media and thanks for watching.

[@omaracelys3217]

Thank you so much for this video, 2h of looking into documentation and trying different videos, and here you are! worked from the first time !

[@JuanColosimo]

Its worked in the first try! Thank you so much!

[@larryandrus1667]

Awesome! I consider myself a non-techie with above average WP skills, however Child Themes seem to stump me. This video has made it super easy to not only create but to also understand...........the people who gave this a thumbs down must be professional haters as this is by far the best video I have seen for instruction - THANK YOU

[@kruegdude]

Once again your sharing information has saved me a ton of time. Thumbs up and thanks.

[@WPCrafter]

I'm glad this was helpful Bill Krueger and thanks for watching.

[@karinadeyanova8756]

2020 and still a valid helpful tutorial. Thank you!

[@AlisonStreetDesigns]

Thank You. You make it very easy to follow your instructions.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you.

[@HomeStudioBasics]

Thanks so much man! I had a child theme on my site forever but it just sat there blank. I never bothered to figure out how to get the header from the parent to the child, and always just ended up making changes to the parent theme. Thankfully I did it right, but stumbling on this video by accident ended up being perfect timing as I needed to not mess something up like doubly so. Haha. Now I got a child theme and was able to send the header.php over! Thanks again!

[@hmdnat]

You are always searching for the best & newest Stuff and present it to us. Thanks Adam.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you. I rely on loyal subscribers to tell me what they want!!!

[@hmdnat]

Well, I guess making a tutorial about how to add or remove sections/division in any theme (Whether by a Plugin, CSS or PHP), will be really great.

[@naomikoopmans]

Thanks for this very helpful video! With people like you out there I'm finding my way to improve my websites. Cheers!

[@rachelleroca8928]

Omg...you made it sound uncomplicated and it was to the point. This is my first video, so if I ever go through any issues on WP I'll stop by here first. Again, ty ty ty!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you!

[@matsuno415]

Awesome video! Clear and well laid out walk through for another "non-techies"!! Thank you!!

[@WPCrafter]

Hey thank you.

[@BeulahWellington]

Thank you so much. You make it so easy to create a child theme. I am learning so much from you. Thanks a lot.

[@rc-so9yu]

Excellent Adam thank you for creating such easy to follow videos!!

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome r c! Thanks for watching.

[@firdavsz]

a great and very intuitive way of creating child-theme. Thanks!

[@GM-hb1gm]

Thank you, I was trying to do that for days, and all these people online talk the computer jargon (and are also very rude and frustrated with us non techies). It's nice to be able to do the tasks without all the knowledge. So thanks again for cutting the deal and rudeness and get straight to the point🤓👌💻

[@1958ans]

Thank you very much for this video! I am a 59-year-old woman. I have a small campsite in the Netherlands. And even I :-) can follow what you explain here !! Greetings Ans Vermeltfoort

[@WPCrafter]

I love it!

[@Nerbyoso_86]

Awesome Video! Take away all the frictions of working with wordpress themes.

[@marywarren5236]

Great, simple to understand. Thanks a lot.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Mary.

[@CostasAvgustidis]

Thanks a lot . I am a new web developer and your way is salvation to me!!! Thanks again and happy new year Costadinos Avgoustidis.

[@envisiondr]

Great educational video on learning about and getting up to speed quickly on Child Themes. This should be a must read/view for everyone just starting out on Wordpress.

[@WPCrafter]

Wow! Thank you!

[@tomevans5062]

Thank you for explaining. Now it all makes sense to me.

[@WPCrafter]

Happy to hear Tom! Thank you for watching.

[@normanlove222]

I gave a thumbs up. This video saved me from doing all this manually, didnt know they had plugins for this :-) Thanks.

[@DesWalsh]

Thank you. After spending an hour at least getting error messages, I found this tutorial, installed the plugin and voila!

[@WPCrafter]

That's great news, that using this video you are able to create a child theme.

[@MrPablo8778]

Awesome Video. I followed your instructions step by step and worked perfectly. I couldn't get any help from my theme author to get this done but what you showed me worked. Thank you!!!!

[@WPCrafter]

Happy to hear it worked out for ya.

[@Michaelrsem0010]

Awesomely helpful. Thank you so very much.

[@WPCrafter]

Happy to hear Michael.

[@armandogutierrez2880]

Excellent Job, very nice thanks for sharing

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Armando Gutierrez! Thanks for watching.

[@davidcross7996]

this is amazing!! I've been putting this off for so long because all of the text based instructions I found were WAY too complicated.. Thank again!!

[@WPCrafter]

I know right. People over complicate things. Thats where I come in to translate it for normal people.

[@cmel87]

This was SO SO helpful!!!!! Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!!!

[@WPCrafter]

Happy to hear that it helped you.

[@Stormfox93]

Thanks for this very clear video instruction

[@jacobburkhart9950]

I have created child themes on multiple sites, and this is by far the easiest way to do it. Awesome job!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you.

[@spiritualityjuice]

EVerything you do is straight forward and easy to follow. I'd gone through 3 others before landing on you ONCE AGAIN. so Next time I won't even waste my time searching. lol

[@barrywalker1809]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[@coolspot89]

Just what i needed, straight to the point. Time is money!! Cheers

[@EzekielRamadan]

Hi Adam, after subscribing and watching your videos for some time, I now have a new habit of clicking the like button when I see your photo on a video, even before the video starts. I always do this because I know it's going to be awesome anyway. Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge.

[@WPCrafter]

I 100% appreciate and need the support. Thank you!

[@alfredotellez1653]

super straight forward!! thank you

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome Alfredo! Thanks for watching.

[@anchalsharma819]

Thanks for this video, long needed. I have two doubs. One- Does this affect my SEO ranking of the original website? 2nd- It's an old video. Does this plugin still do the job perfectly? Please guide.

[@holigateadvancetechltd.3678]

Hey Adam!!! thanks so much for uploading all those wonderful tutorials. bye

[@jeremymcglone2576]

hey, loved this video! best and easiest explanation I could find!

[@gunpharoahoffender3442]

Hey buddy your video is truly awesome !!! I have been using Joomla and wanted to move the site to WP because of the lovely Themes and functionalities. They say WP is easier than Joomla but you know a great site is not a cakewalk. You made my day with easy instructions and that too in a non-tech way. I am going through all your videos now. Thanks :)

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks so much, and I think the reason I feel that WordPress is a better direction is because it's where all the action is for development. There is such a vast array of themes and plug-ins available that makes it so easy to do things.

[@gunpharoahoffender3442]

I agree with you Adam. Thanks again!

[@lazarjovovic4009]

Straight to the point. Thumbs up.

[@tripsitter987]

this was SOOOO helpful. the footer.php part was gold. thank you!!! Also, I'm so happy about how it transfers my previous customizations. You really made my day. I'm only upset that I went to another video before yours and wasted so much time

[@thespeedyone2001]

Still works in 2021. Good stuff man, thank you.

[@wendysdesign]

This is so useful! Thank you so much for the tutorial!

[@rbuffkin56]

An absolute fantastic tutorial!! Thanks so much Adam!

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Rick Buffkin! Thanks for watching.

[@khana1]

You're awesome! Make is sound so simple and make me realize it actually is simple! Thanks

[@WPCrafter]

Yes it doesn't have to be so hard. People just explain it all wrong.

[@infinitevisionsforyou]

Great work. Thank you so much for such a helpful video.

[@Nihbru]

Thanks for the vid, very easy to follow and made a pain in the ass a breeze ty again.

[@StephenBellShot]

Thank you for this exceptionally helpful video! It is very well thought out and executed!!

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks! I did put some thought into this one.

[@YBenarab]

Waow, that was easy. Thank you very much, love your videos!

[@macaroon147]

Excellent info and straight to the point. Thank you!

[@tonyainva2147]

Thank you for this video. I must have watched 5 videos before I came across yours. You explain how to make child themes easy. Keep up the great work!

[@WPCrafter]

I'm glad this was helpful Tonya in VA and thanks for watching.

[@kapiyacharlesmukupa9270]

Man!!!!!! you are awesome, I have learned too much from you.

[@novicetech1]

Absolutely AWESOME!!! Thank you :-)

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome!

[@arjhonc]

Helpful info. definitely subscribed and liked. Thank you.

[@becsta365]

awesome thanks so much for the very useful video - set it all up easy-peasy :)

[@WPCrafter]

Glad to hear that it was easy to do Rebecca.

[@THAIWAK]

Excellent job. Many thanks for posting.

[@tungao2515]

Super helpful guide. Thanks a lot!

[@pauls7056]

Amazing! As always, Adam, fantastically clear instructions. I went step by step through your explanation with my new website open and it worked....effortlessly! I always look for your videos first because you just get down to the matter and any small detours you make tend to be pearls of wisdom. I liked the way you showed the next steps about future CSS changes. Thank you for posting. Cheers, Paul

[@WPCrafter]

Hey Paul, I'm glad that you enjoy the videos that I put out and your willingness to listen to the little extra bits of info that I put in these videos.

[@JasonThomas-bv2yw]

Excellent video. I love how WordPress makes it so easy to change the look and feel of your website quickly, and also having the control to modify any of the code wherever you want. WordPress gives an awesome base website to start off with. And it's so simple. But, I do recommend people learn some basic HTML and CSS; and eventually JavaScript. It's always good to be able to fix small issues yourself instead of paying 100's or 1000's on a web developer. Especially after you put a few months or years of work into your site. I was worried about losing data when creating a child theme, and this really helped. Now, I'm off to add some scripts. Thank you so much. :)

[@WPCrafter]

Yes some basic things are helpful to learn.

[@MarcusHuels]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks for the content!

[@Innovate-Geek]

Thank you for such a helpful tutorial.

[@168sandeep]

Thanks for this video. Superb work.....

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome Sandeep! Thanks for watching.

[@SScott-kv1kg]

Hi WPCrafter. Firstly, thank you so much for this video. I wish I would've have found it sooner. For Step 5. the Child Theme Configurator, suggested that I choose the Separate Stylesheets option because of this: This theme loads additional stylesheets after the style.css file Since it's a recommendation and not a requirement, would you suggest going with that or just select the Primary Stylesheet option? I've come this far and I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks.

[@timokeeffe7870]

I find all your videos very helpful. I am very new to Wordpress. Would it be better to install a child theme at the start of the design process: For example I will be using Elementor for the build using Generate Press for the template. There is no content yet on my theme. So would it be better to work on a brand new child theme at the very beginning . Thanks Tim

[@WPCrafter]

Hey Tim, yes it is always I to start with a child theme from the beginning.

[@kentbailey5260]

Great video! Will creating a child theme also maintain home page slider images, etc. when updating a theme? I updated one of my sites and had to reload the slider images and feature images as well as some content after the update. Thanks!

[@WPCrafter]

Well it sounds like to me that whoever your theme developer is they screwed up with an update. This happens sometimes when you're dealing with inexperienced developers, or when you are upgrading to a major new version. So an example would be with the popular slider plug-in revolution slider, when they updated from version 4 to version 5 you had a lot of that, where people were losing their sliders.

[@martinrichards2275]

Very useful and well explained. Thanks

[@ES2209]

Thanx ! very good tutorial ! I have a question about when you move a website to an other provider, how do you do that with the child theme ?

[@WPCrafter]

If you are moving your website you would be using some sort of tool to do it which will also bring over the child theme.

[@GetAClueMarketingShow]

💡Appreciate your explanation of child themes. Genesis themes been bugging me for years to create child theme. Nice and smooth demo - no coding.🔍

[@Daryl_Weaver]

Perfect content for my needs. Can't wait to check out more of your instructional videos! I so appreciate all the time you and other contributors put into making this content available for non-programmers.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks for stopping by Daryl. You are pretty much my target market, people that want to do these things on their own and not to go and get a PhD in coding.

[@digitalwealthmaker]

Great solution thank you!

[@WPCrafter]

I'm glad this was helpful digitalwealthmaker and thanks for watching.

[@Tidaltwist]

Very helpful. Thank you so much!

[@philipzanfra783]

Wow, I love you - with the first plugin I installed, I was unsuccessful I just subscribed to your channel Thanks and Cheers

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome Philip! Thanks for watching.

[@jamieandrade7570]

Thank you that was super easy. I was putting off the child theme because everyone made it seem so complicated.

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome, I know the feeling. Glad that my video made it easier.

[@souleymanediallo1307]

Thank you so very kindly Sir. You are a great tutor. I'm am new to WordPress and I have few questions that I want you to help me clarify. 1. If I installed free themes and plugins what will become the outcome of my site after those themes and plugins are no longer available for free? 2. If I make my theme a child theme and edit few things and become the author will my site be updated after the parent theme is updated?

[@TonyCuckson]

Thank you so much. Very helpful

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome, happy to help.

[@miksologia]

Nice video of a nice plugin. My first child theme created succesfully! Greetings from Oulu, Finland.

[@WPCrafter]

That's awesome to hear!

[@apriadinurkurniawan8801]

Great explanation! thank you very much

[@GAShelterFriend]

Thank you! I love your tutorials. You've helped me so much.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Karen! I'm happy to help in any way that I can always.

[@garybarone907]

Nice clear instructions on how to create the child and why ... thanks .... just one clarification ... do I keep the "child" active and make the changes there so that as I change things it automatically goes into the child directory?

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks!Yes you are correct, any changes go in the child theme!

[@Stooly]

Great video, thank you so much for the help!

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks Stella!

[@staceem]

Exactly what I needed. Excellent tutorial. Thanks so much!

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Stacee Lynn! Thanks for watching.

[@brad799653]

Thank you so much!!! I got my child theme installed and have started making updates.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Brad Spomer! Thanks for watching.

[@ydeviofficial8760]

very useful & easy tuts...thanks

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you very much.

[@MRSDR100]

Thanks so much for these videos!

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome Meg! Thanks for watching.

[@stephanieukht4351]

Thank you! You've explained it brilliantly!

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Stephanie Ukht! Thanks for watching.

[@executivecoachingandleader7122]

Great way at making this simple and understandable!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Glenn!

[@Azar211]

Kojak is always great 😁, thanks you teacher for you efficient videos , 👍👍 👏👏

[@thanvirmohammed8973]

Thanks for the "plugin way" of doing this thing. Thanks alot

[@LeanIPD]

what program do you use to record your presentations? I'm assuming you are recording your screen with a webcam on? Do you use a post production editing software also or can I just use a simple powerpoint presentation while recording my screen? thanks much.

[@WPCrafter]

Right now I am using Camtasia.