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Introduction

A child theme is a copy of the parent theme. By creating a child theme you can make changes to the website’s styles without altering the original theme.

Additionally, when the theme is updated, the child theme’s styles will stay intact. If you made customizations directly to the parent theme you’ll lose your changes when the theme is updated.

Creating a Child Theme

Products such as managed WordPress by namedotcom don’t provide FTP/SFTP access to the host. In these situations you may scratch your head wondering how to create a child theme for your custom styles. With a plugin of course!

This guide uses the WP Child Theme Generator plugin.

Install WP Child Theme Generator Plugin

The first thing you need to do to in order to install the WP Child Theme Generator plugin is click Plugins from the WordPress Dashboard.

Then click Add New Plugin.

Next, type child theme in the search bar.

Click Install Now on the WP Child Theme Generator Plugin.

Then click Activate.

In the top menu bar, hover over Make Child Theme, then the subdirectory Create & Activate, and click on the theme you want to make a child theme of. In this case, Storefront.

Click Theme File Editor under the Appearance sub-menu.

Thanks to the child theme you can safely make changes to your theme files without overwriting your parent theme!

Custom CSS

#primary.content-area {
	width: 100%;
	margin-right: 0;
}

#secondary.widget-area {
	display: none;
}

.site-info a {
	display: none;
}

This is the custom CSS code used to remove the WooCommerce branding and sidebar in the guide.

Conclusion

Child themes are a way to protect your parent theme files and ensure your custom changes don’t get overwritten when your theme is updated.

If you are using a managed WordPress product such as namedotcom managed WordPress then you won’t be able to access the webhost to manually create a child theme.

WP Child Theme Generator is a great plugin, and use case, for such a scenario.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a comment if it helped!

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