How to Create a Child Theme for Wordpress

In today's tips and tricks we show you how to create a child theme for WordPress. It is a most so you don't lose all your hard work that you have done on your website. - You can find the code on our site - http://bit.ly/2p0jczx Website - http://bit.ly/2movgwN Twitter - http://bit.ly/2nG01h1 Facebook - http://bit.ly/2mPVB2R Instagram - http://bit.ly/2nvNSL6 Today on UV Design Tips and Tricks we show you how to make a child theme, so you don’t lose all your customization. So you just found that perfect theme for your WordPress site, and you’re all happy to get started with it, and make your site look beautiful. First things first, you choose your theme. You uploaded it, and it’s ready to go, right? Incorrect. You wanna make what’s known as a child theme. There are multiple reasons why you wanna make a child theme and the number one reason is so you don’t lose what you did to the theme. What I mean by that is let’s say you spent a lot of time on it, customizing this theme, making your site look beautiful, and then a month from now, two months from now, six months from now, your theme comes up with an update. You wanna make the update because it has features and security and just functionality on the theme. You click update and after you update you go back to your site and all your customization is gone. Why is that? Well, it’s gone because all of the customization that you have done has been overwritten by the update. And for instance I’m using Divi Theme so all these customization's that you would do inside here, well, let’s see. When you do inside here to the theme, you know, under customize, you know, maybe you’ve edited the footer PHP file and all that stuff. Well, when the theme updates it’s going to overwrite all the files that are associated with that file, so all of these, all the changes that you make inside of here, this screen and other pieces up here. You’ve got the editor inside here, all these changes that you make will get overwritten back to the default and they’re gone forever. Well, maybe not forever, ’cause you can restore back to how it was before the update. So to prevent that we are going to create what is called a child theme. Again, there’s other reasons why. That’s the number one reason why. I guess the second reason why is to kind of start understanding how WordPress works and themes work inside your WordPress site. If you just Google Child WordPress theme, or I’m sorry, what was that? If you just Google child theme WordPress, WordPress has a very good article that explains a little bit more in depth of why you want to do this and other steps on how to create one. Well, we’re gonna show you the steps for you because that’s what we’re here to do, show you tips and tricks, right? And I would say out of all the tips and tricks I have for WordPress this is the number one. This is the one I’ve seen where more people don’t understand what happened, why they don’t start off with it. I see developers whose customers pay them a lot money and the developers don’t even do this. I don’t know why. Well, there might be reasons why, but I don’t understand why. So anyways, we’re going to show you how to make this. Now I use FileZilla as my FTP program. I like it. It’s simple. It’s easy to go. You don’t have to use FileZilla. You can use whatever you want. You can even use something as easy as a file manager to do this. Let’ just go inside file manager. It’s under public HTML that you can create files and everything like that in here. But we’re gonna use FileZilla, ’cause that’s what I use, and it’s what I like, and so be it. So, we’ll go back over to FileZilla and let’s start from the beginning. Of course taking forever today. So log into FileZilla. I’m inside the public HTML and here’s my WordPress core features, or core install, all the folders and files, and everything. Basically everything in here is what comes when you install WordPress. For the most part the only two files you’re really ever going to edit that comes with WordPress is your htaccess and any fold, folders inside wp-content. Admin includes all these others WPs. Probably never going to touch. Maybe the config file, but that’s for another day, not today...............