Child Themes Basics and Creating Child Themes in WordPress

A WordPress theme is a collection of template files which lets you change the user interface, design, look, and feel of the site. A WordPress theme can either just have some bare minimum design changes implemented or might even have some advanced logic showing the most recent post differently than the others or showing the posts from a particular category in a different section on the home page etc. WordPress themes can range from a simple set of files to a complete complex framework so that other themes can be built on top of that. In this article we are going to see how one can create child themes for other themes to leverage on the code provided by the parent theme.

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