Installing a Child Theme

This page covers the topic of "Child Themes" and what they are used for. It also provides information on how to upload one to your WordPress site.

🧒 What is a Child Theme?

As WordPress.org describes it "A child theme allows you to change small aspects of your site’s appearance yet still preserve your theme’s look and functionality." You can read more about how child themes work, and their relationship with a parent theme in the Official Handbook.

In a nutshell, you can customize the code of a child theme and still update the parent theme without losing any changes. This is only needed if you want to go beyond what the theme's customizer settings have to offer.

⬆️ Uploading a Child Theme

Aubrey already comes with its own child theme which can be found in the "themes" folder in your download package. Simply upload the file named aubrey-child.zip as you would any other theme and then activate it. For more information on how to install themes, please refer to the chapter on Installing Aubrey.

The theme will automatically inherit all of the styles and functionality from its parent theme. Just be aware that all of your customizer settings will be reset to their default values since it is technically a different theme!