Author: Joseph Dickson

Joseph Dickson is a front-end web developer with experience building higher education websites using ClassicPress, WordPress, and Drupal.

Customizing a Child Theme

My first video I showed you how to create a child theme but not much else.

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In this video I start off with a empty child theme based on Twenty Seventeen.

My first video I showed you how to create a child theme but not much else.

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In this video I start off with an empty child theme based on Twenty Seventeen and make the following modifications.

  1. Use CSS to customize the default appearance of the logo image.
  2. Add a function that allows shortcodes to work in post excerpts
  3. Disable Google Fonts imported by the parent theme
  4. Self host fonts

All of which either overrides the parent or enhances the website

If you would like to follow along you can download the theme created for this video.

How to Create a WordPress Child Theme

Watch as I create a Child Theme for WordPress development so that my changes are preserved if and when the Parent Theme is updated at a later date.

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If you’d like to follow along install the Writee Theme on a testing server and review the code from the Child Theme in this video.

Watch as I create a Child Theme for WordPress development so that my changes are preserved if and when the Parent Theme is updated at a later date.

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If you’d like to follow along install the Writee Theme on a testing server and review the code from the Child Theme in this video.

Twenty Seventeen Empty Child

I created this child theme purely for educational and experimental purposes.

This simple child theme that does nothing. It’s an empty stylesheet, and has a functions.php file that imports the parent and a placeholder screenshot.png.

Feel free to download it, add your custom code. The Twenty Seventeen theme remains stock and will receive updates and pass those along to the child theme.
twentyseventeen-empty-child.zip