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WordPress Build a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Posted by Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller
5,911 Points

2013?

whats the point of trying to follow along with this guy... So MUCH has changed since then right? plus I feel like I am wasting my time trying trying to follow him. Is anyone feeling the same?

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

For the purpose of understanding how to build a child-theme, no. Nothing has changed. You still need a child-theme folder, and a style.css that states the child-theme. The process for the file structure is still the same. The things that have changed is adding more of a modern workflow to building your sites, ie local dev environments, gulp, git, sass/scss, and some new/revised hooks and filters to hook into WordPress. If you are learning how to build a child-theme then no, its still the same process.