If you are a WordPress developer or a site maintainer, you know the drill. You need to customize a theme, but you can't touch the parent theme files because the next update will wipe everything out.
So, you have to create a Child Theme.
The Old Way (The Boring Way) 🐢
Manually creating a child theme is repetitive. You have to:
Create a new folder.
Create a style.css and write the specific header comments.
Create a functions.php and write the wp_enqueue_scripts function to load the parent styles correctly.
It’s not "hard" code, but it’s boilerplate. And writing boilerplate code is a waste of time. Plus, if you mess up the dependency in the PHP function, your styles won't load correctly.
The New Way (The Smart Way) 🚀
I built a simple tool to automate this entire process. Instead of copy-pasting code snippets from the Codex/Documentation every time, you can generate a standard, bug-free child theme in seconds.
Meet the WordPress Child Theme Generator.
How it Works
It takes the tedious work out of the equation.
Enter your Parent Theme Slug (e.g., astra, twentytwentyfour).
Name your Child Theme.
Click Generate.
The tool instantly gives you a ready-to-install .zip file containing:
✅ A properly formatted style.css
✅ A correct functions.php (with proper enqueuing)
Why use this tool?
Speed: It takes literally 10 seconds.
Standards: It follows the official WordPress coding standards.
Safety: No bloatware, just the necessary files.
Try it out
Next time you start a project, save yourself those 15 minutes of setup time.
👉 Generate Your Child Theme Here
Let me know if you find it useful for your workflow!
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