WordPress Child Theme overview and where to find extra resources
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In this video, I give a quick review of the steps we took to create our child theme. I also provide a little bit of guidance for where to learn more about how to customize your child theme.
We only added a bit of CSS code in our example, but there's a lot more you can do with child themes.
If you want to change more than just the stylesheet, your child theme can overwrite any file in the parent theme. You can include a file of the same name in the child theme folder, and it will overwrite the equivalent file in the parent theme.
For example: if you want to change your site footer, you can include a file called footer.php in your child theme's folder, and that file will be used instead of the parent theme's footer.php file.
An important exception: the functions.php of a child theme doesn't override its counterpart from the parent. Instead, it's loaded in addition to the parent's functions.php — and this is very useful, as you'll soon discover!
You'll need to be comfortable with PHP in order to edit many of your theme files — which is beyond the scope of this beginner-level course. In the meantime, there's a lot you can learn simply by peeking at the code inside the php files in your parent theme.
The WordPress Codex is the best place to start to learn more! https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
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