by lilaeamedia
4.7 (277 reviews)
Child Theme Configurator
When using the Customizer is not enough - Create a child theme from your installed themes and customize styles, templates, functions and more.
Tested up to WP 6.8.3 (Current: 6.9)
v2.6.7
Current Version v2.6.7
Updated 7 months ago
Last Update on 10 Jun, 2025
Synced 16 hours ago
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#185
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60.8
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7M
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Support Resolved
33%
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Rating
94%
Review 4.7 out of 5
4.7
(277 reviews)
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- Version
- 2.6.7
- Last Updated
- Jun 10, 2025
- Requires WP
- 4.0+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8.3
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- lilaeamedia
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- Reviews
- 277
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Child Theme Configurator
Follow these steps: http://www.childthemeplugin.com/how-to-use/#child_from_modified_parent
This is a misconfiguration created by the Bluehost auto-installer. http://www.childthemeplugin.com/child-theme-faqs/#constants" class="scroll-to">How to fix.
There are videos under the "Help" tab at the top right of the page. You can also view them at http://www.childthemeplugin.com/tutorial-videos
No. This is the point of using child themes. Changes to the parent theme are automatically inherited by the child theme. A child theme is not a "copy" of the parent theme. It is a special feature of WordPress that let's you override specific styles and functions leaving the rest of the theme intact. Quality themes should identify any deprecated functions or styles in the upgrade notes so that child theme users can make adjustments accordingly.
No. Child Theme Configurator is designed to work independently of themes and plugins. Just remember that if you re-install, you must rebuild the configuration data using the Parent/Child tab.
Arbitrary comments are not supported. Providing a high level of flexibility for previewing and modifying custom styles requires sophisticated parsing and data structures. Maintaining comments that are bound to any particular element in the stylesheet is prohibitively expensive compared to the value it would add. Although we are working to include this as an option in the future, currently all comments are stripped from the child theme stylesheet code.
Yes. Go to "Network Admin > Themes > Child Themes." Child themes must be "Network enabled" to preview and activate for Network sites.
Child Theme Configurator PRO brings the CSS editing power of Child Theme Configurator to any WordPress Plugin installed on your website by scanning your plugins and creating custom CSS in your Child Themes. Learn more at http://www.childthemeplugin.com/child-theme-configurator-pro
Some themes (particularly commercial themes) do not correctly load parent template files or automatically load child theme stylesheets or php files. This is unfortunate, because in the best case they effectively prohibit the webmaster from adding any customizations (other than those made through the admin theme options) that will survive past an upgrade. In the worst case they will break your website when you activate the child theme. Contact the vendor directly to ask for this core functionality. It is our opinion that ALL themes (especially commercial ones) must pass the Theme Unit Tests outlined by WordPress.org and ALWAYS TEST CHILD THEMES BEFORE ACTIVATING (See "Preview and Activate").
Child Theme Configurator is designed to add the minimum amount of additional overhead possible and can actually improve performance. For example: Child Theme Configurator creates or updates files that are already being read by the system. On the front-end, there are no database calls so WordPress can run independent of the plugin. In fact, you can remove Child Theme Configurator when you are finished setting up your child themes. Custom styles are applied to a stylesheet file that can be cached by the browser and/or cached and minimized by a performance caching plugin. Because the editor creates mostly "overrides" to existing styles, the file is typically smaller than other stylesheets. The code that drives the editor interface only loads when the tool is being used from the WordPress Admin, including Javascript and CSS. This means that it will not get in the way of other admin pages. The biggest performance hit occurs when you generate the Child Theme files from the Parent/Child tab, but this is a one-time event and only occurs from the WordPress Admin. HELP! I changed a file and now I am unable to access my website or login to wp-admin to fix it! To back out of a broken child theme you have to manually rename the offending theme directory name (via FTP, SSH or your web host control panel file manager) so that WordPress can’t find it. WordPress will then throw an error and revert back to the default theme (currently twenty-fifteen). The child theme is in your themes folder, usually [wordpress]/wp-content/themes/[child-theme] To prevent this in the future, always test child themes with Live Preview (theme customizer) before activating.