{"id":1533,"date":"2017-06-08T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:39:36","slug":"how-to-install-wordpress-child-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/how-to-install-wordpress-child-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install WordPress Child Theme Step by Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is a Child Theme For WordPress?<\/h2>\n<p>A child theme is a theme that inherits all the functionality and styling from its parent theme. You can modify the features of the theme without losing all the customization in the case of an update of the parent theme.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why Use a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WordPress?src=hash\">#WordPress<\/a> Child Theme and How to Create One<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cEplxO0K3N\">https:\/\/t.co\/cEplxO0K3N<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WordPressThemes?src=hash\">#WordPressThemes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ng2vhBSWhM\">pic.twitter.com\/Ng2vhBSWhM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Judith Kallos (@IStudio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IStudio\/status\/872540083659960320\">June 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Why Should You Use a WordPress Child Theme?<\/h2>\n<p>There are several advantages of using WordPress child theme as mentioned below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"innerlist\">\n<li>There is always an adequate\u00a0scope to do customization or adding new features in WordPress child theme.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It gives you a scope to override the base theme in WordPress if you don&#8217;t\u00a0like.<\/li>\n<li>It also ensures that when you update WordPress or parent theme your child theme is unaffected.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>You need not worry if you leave something out of a child theme as the parent theme can easily provide the functionality.<\/li>\n<li>When there is a WordPress theme update the changes which you made in WordPress\u00a0child theme will not get affected.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>If you are using a framework as a parent theme then you can easily extend the functions as per your need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 1<\/h2>\n<p>Install the Child theme just as you would for any other WordPress theme.<\/p>\n<p>In your WordPress admin area, go to Appearance \u00bb Themes page and click on the Add New button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/step-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your child theme is available as a free theme on WordPress.org theme directory then type the name of the child theme in the search box.<\/p>\n<p>After you have found your child theme, click on the install button.<\/p>\n<p>If your child theme is in a .zip format, first click on the \u2018Upload Theme\u2019 button, select the zip file, and then hit on the \u2018Install Now\u2019 button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/step-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2<\/h2>\n<p>If the parent theme is available in WordPress.org theme directory, WordPress automatically installs the parent theme. However, you cannot install child theme if parent theme is missing, in that case, you have to manually.<\/p>\n<p>To manually install the parent theme, first, go to your WordPress parent theme website to download the zip file.<\/p>\n<p>Now go to Appearance \u00bb Themes page and click on the Add New button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/step-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click the \u2018Upload Theme\u2019 button next click on \u2018Choose File\u2019, then select the zip file and then click the \u2018Install Now\u2019 button to install WordPress child theme.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/step-2-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now without any worry, you can customize your WordPress\u00a0child theme.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comprehensive guide will show you how to set up WordPress child theme and why it is a must use to make your developmental task easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[53,59,58,50,47,46,60,57,52,51,44,45,48,49,56,42,41,43,55,54],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-cheap-digital-marketing-agency-kolkata","tag-cheap-facebook-promotion-kolkata","tag-cheap-seo-services-kolkata","tag-digital-marketing-agencies-in-kolkata","tag-digital-marketing-agency-india","tag-digital-marketing-kolkata","tag-facebook-marketing-kolkata","tag-facebook-promotion-kolkata","tag-seo-company-in-kolkata","tag-seo-services-kolkata","tag-social-media-agency-kolkata","tag-social-media-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-company-in-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-services-in-kolkata","tag-top-digital-marketing-agencies-in-kolkata","tag-top-digital-marketing-companies-in-kolkata","tag-web-design-company-kolkata","tag-web-designer-kolkata","tag-web-development-company-kolkata"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}