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Step-By-Step Child Themes for New & Existing WordPress Sites (Udemy.com)

A beginner's guide to creating child themes and making basic modifications to style your WordPress website

4.5
49 reviews

Created by: Christine Maisel

Last updated May 2017

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What you will learn

  • Build their own child themes from scratch
  • Customize the look of their website using a child theme
  • Protect site customizations from being lost during theme upgrades
  • Set-up the basic 3 step structure of a child theme
  • Learn how to easily find and make CSS changes to a child theme without knowledge of CSS
  • Create a child theme for an existing site
  • Use plugins for child theme creation if desired

How it compares

Against the other 102 rated Udemy courses in WordPress on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 52% of them
  • Reviews49#98 of 103 by number of reviews
  • Length0.8 hoursshorter than 99% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2017earlier than 93% of them

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Course Description

Watch and create your own WordPress child theme as you go through this course. This course is designed for beginners who are unfamiliar with child themes and need to understand when to use a child theme and how to create one. 

Inside we'll cover:

  • What's required to create a child theme
  • How to easily find and customize CSS code without knowing CSS
  • How to set-up the basic 3 step structure of a child theme
  • How to activate a child theme

If you've already created a website or don't feel comfortable creating a child theme from scratch, we'll also cover:

  • How to create a child theme for an existing website
  • How to easily create a child theme using plugins

Follow along as you go through the course and create you first child theme. Walk away with the knowledge of what a child theme is, when you should be using it, what you need to create a child theme and how to do it.

BONUSES:

#1 Download 2 child themes you can modify and use

#2 Download a child theme creation checklist to follow each time you create a child theme
Read More Beginner Beginner Level product length iconTime: 48 mins

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Instructor Details

Christine Maisel

Christine is a Web Design & SEO Business Coach at Portable Entrepreneur where she directly helps web design and SEO startups through education, coaching and services. 

Christine has been a web designer for nearly 15 years - 10 of which she has been self-employed. Her work has taken her from working for some start-up dot com companies in the early 2000's to working as a contractor for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense to her own home office.

In her time, she has built 100's of websites and blogs primarily on WordPress and Joomla. Christine has also provided training to individuals and businesses to help them manage their websites on their own with no knowledge of web coding.

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4.5

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By Ruben Marques on 8/31/2019

I never realized how important a Child Theme could be in WordPress. Now I feel really confident to create a Child Theme for all my WP projects. I think that even if it's a small change on a site, the Child Theme is always the right thing to do. Great and simple course.

By Nicole Brandau on 9/15/2018

Everything I needed to know about child-themes. I work with Divi and therefore this course was perfect for me.

By Christina Hebets on 6/29/2018

I was unable to get the style.css to connect properly just using her videos. I had to go through the extra resources and I felt that it could have been explained a little better that sometimes you will need extra php code in order to do what she did.

By Andi Schwartz on 1/1/2018

Helpful! Glad I could find some direction and understanding for how to create a child theme and how to create one for an existing site, which is what I really needed.

By Bradford Hall on 7/3/2017

Very informative. The instructor has a very pleasing voice, which I find important. I take a lot of online CBT courses and some can become very monotonous and difficult to be attentive just in the tone of the instructors voice. If the course is not upbeat and lacks positive emotion it can be dull and difficult to complete. This course is relatively short but delivers well on its intent.

By Diego José Sierra Lazo on 12/21/2016

Christine is an excellent instructor. She provides every single step on the process. Her lessons are very clear and she provides good examples and references to online tools that can help you complete every single task. Great course !!

By Ronnie on 9/13/2016

The was not as in-depth as I would have like.

By Randy Paterson on 9/7/2016

Thorough look into the creation of a child theme for free or premium WordPress themes along with good tips, tricks and tools to facilitate success in creating modifications for that just right look as well as adding professional design touches without the worry of losing them with continuous updates that are often needed for various reasons. Nicely done, Thank you!

By Sabina Montgomery-Swan on 9/1/2016

Very detailed and explanatory. Easy to follow, as Christine explains everything while she is doing it.

By Pam on 8/23/2016

The course is meeting my expectations, and proceeding at a comfortable pace. Very informative.

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Step-By-Step Child Themes for New & Existing WordPress Sites
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  • Video Duration: icon 48 mins
  • Price: $12.99
  • Provider: icon Udemy
  • Updated: icon May 2017
  • Level: Beginner Beginner
  • Language: icon English
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