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WordPress screens, plugin behavior and instructions may have changed since it was written. Ask me for help with your current setup.","text",{"html":23,"type":17},"\u003Ch2>\u003Cstrong>Creating Your First Child Theme\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To begin, go to your WordPress installation folder and open \u002Fwp-content\u002Fthemes\u002F, and create a new folder for your child's theme. This folder can be given whatever name you choose. We're going to call this instruction a web demo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Copy and paste the following code into style.css in the text editor like Notepad:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u002F*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Theme Name: Child Theme\u003Cbr>Text Domain: child theme\u003Cbr>Version: 1.8\u003Cbr>Requires at least: 4.7\u003Cbr>Requires PHP: 5.2.4\u003Cbr>Description: Child Theme Description Here\u003Cbr>Author: the WordPress team\u003Cbr>Author URI: https:\u002F\u002Fwordpress.org\u002F\u003Cbr>Theme URI: https:\u002F\u002Fwordpress.org\u002Fthemes\u002Fchild-theme\u002F\u003Cbr>License: GNU General Public License v2 or later\u003Cbr>License URI: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gnu.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fgpl-2.0.html\u003Cbr>All files, unless otherwise stated, are released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.gnu.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fgpl-2.0.html)\u003Cbr>This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL. Use it to make something cool, have fun, and share what you've learned with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>*\u002F\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Save this file in the child theme folder you just created as style.css.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The majority of the information in this file is self-explanatory. The Template: twenty-two is where you should focus your attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This notifies WordPress that our theme is a child theme with the directory name twenty thirteen as the parent theme. The name of the parent folder is case-sensitive. It will not function if we give WordPress the template TwentyTwenty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The last line of this code imports the CSS from our parent theme into the child theme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This is the bare minimum for developing a child theme. You may now access the child Theme by going to Appearance » Themes. 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