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Plugin Description
Please visit the plugin homepage.
Useful for shared hosts, this allows you to easily create child themes from any
theme just by clicking.
Ever since WordPress 3.0, you shouldn’t directly modify CSS of any downloaded
themes because if you update the theme, your changes will be destroyed. Instead,
it is recommended that you create a child theme and edit the CSS there, this way
updates to the parent theme will be inherited instead of destroy your changes.
The problem is that currently the only way to child theme something is edit
files on the filesystem. This is non-intuitive for shared-hosting sites with
one-click WordPress installs (it usually involves a “shell account” or learning
how to use FTP).
This attempts to get around that issue, by adding a button to the themes page to
allow you to child theme the page. (It’s not really one-click, though.)
Inspired by @janeforshort‘s and @designsimply’s WordCamp SF 2011 talk on CSS
theming as requested by @sfgirl for her blog.
Screenshots
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To use the plugin, click one of these two palces in the Appearance section of your wp_admin
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Fill out this form
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You will see the theme will be successfully child-themed, but will track the parent theme correctly.
