Step-By-Step Child Themes for New & Existing WordPress Sites

Discover how to create and customize WordPress child themes with our friendly beginner's course.

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Brief Summary

This fun, easy-to-follow course teaches beginners how to create and customize WordPress child themes while making website modifications stress-free and enjoyable.

Key Points

  • Understand the basics of child themes.
  • Create a child theme step-by-step.
  • Customize your website's style without knowing CSS.

Learning Outcomes

  • Master the basics of WordPress child themes.
  • Learn how to create a child theme for an existing site.
  • Gain skills to protect your site customizations from updates.

About This Course

A beginner's guide to creating child themes and making basic modifications to style your WordPress website

Watch and create your own WordPress child theme as you go through this course. This course is designed for beginners who are unfamiliar with child themes and need to understand when to use a child theme and how to create one.

Inside we'll cover:

  • What's required to create a child theme

  • How to easily find and customize CSS code without knowing CSS

  • How to set-up the basic 3 step structure of a child theme

  • How to activate a child theme

If you've already created a website or don't feel comfortable creating a child theme from scratch, we'll also cover:

  • How to create a child theme for an existing website

  • How to easily create a child theme using plugins

Follow along as you go through the course and create you first child theme. Walk away with the knowledge of what a child theme is, when you should be using it, what you need to create a child theme and how to do it.

BONUSES:

#1 Download 2 child themes you can modify and use

#2 Download a child theme creation checklist to follow each time you create a child theme

  • Build their own child themes from scratch

  • Customize the look of their website using a child theme

  • Protect site customizations from being lost during theme upgrades

Instructor

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Christine Maisel

Christine is a Web Design & SEO Business Coach at Portable Entrepreneur where she directly helps web design and SEO startups through education, coaching and services. Christine has been a web designer for nearly 15 years - 10 of which she has been self-employed. Her work has taken her from working for some start-up dot com companies in the early...

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Sagar Sharma
Sagar S.
4.5
4 years ago

This course is great! Very well organized and thought out.

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William K.
5.0
4 years ago

Yes

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Ruben D. S. M.
5.0
5 years ago

I never realized how important a Child Theme could be in WordPress. Now I feel really confident to create a Child Theme for all my WP projects.
I think that even if it's a small change on a site, the Child Theme is always the right thing to do.
Great and simple course.

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Nicole B.
5.0
6 years ago

Everything I needed to know about child-themes. I work with Divi and therefore this course was perfect for me.

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Christina H.
3.0
6 years ago

I was unable to get the style.css to connect properly just using her videos. I had to go through the extra resources and I felt that it could have been explained a little better that sometimes you will need extra php code in order to do what she did.

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Scott R.
5.0
7 years ago

First I really appreciate Christine's teaching style. She is great at responding and updating courses. Here material is real and her solutions are simple and easy to grasp. I also like that she doesn't overdo the amount of material so it's easy to concentrate on and follow. I have now taken and finished 4 of her courses all of which has helped me learn what I thought would be difficult and look forward to new ones she brings out.

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Andi S.
5.0
7 years ago

Helpful! Glad I could find some direction and understanding for how to create a child theme and how to create one for an existing site, which is what I really needed.

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ui-avatar of Roatanea Vonei
Roatanea V.
5.0
7 years ago

Great course! Easy to follow and useful references. Love her courses!

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ui-avatar of Mike J Schorah
Mike J. S.
5.0
7 years ago

Wish I found this course a month ago

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Bradford H.
5.0
7 years ago

Very informative. The instructor has a very pleasing voice, which I find important. I take a lot of online CBT courses and some can become very monotonous and difficult to be attentive just in the tone of the instructors voice. If the course is not upbeat and lacks positive emotion it can be dull and difficult to complete. This course is relatively short but delivers well on its intent.

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