I’ve been reading a lot over the past few months about child themes in WordPress and how users have found them to be an invaluable resource when creating WordPress themes.

What’s this “child theme” thing?

For those unfamiliar with the concept, the way I’d explain it is as follows:

A user chooses a WordPress theme (or theme framework) which they would like to customise. They then create a new theme with only the files required for the customisation. The main change comes in the style.css file where the theme details are specified. The line “Template” is added to the theme details, which then specifies the folder name of the main theme (chosen above). An example block would like like this:
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