Child Themes, Why You Should be Using Them, and How To Get Started!

Have you ever downloaded a theme and wanted to make it your own but were unsure how to keep your changes when updating to the latest version of the theme? What about adding page or post templates, or even custom functions to a theme? Before custom coding an entire theme, look at the abundance of great themes already available, and make them your own with a child theme.

All of this and more is accomplished by using child themes. Tonight we will build a basic child theme for WordPress with some custom page templates.