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Child Theme Wizard

by Jay Versluis

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Description

The Child Theme Wizard lets you create a new child theme without the need for additional tools, right from within the WordPress admin interface. Once activated you can find it under Tools – Child Theme Wizard.

Specify a parent theme, customise options such as title and description and click Create Child Theme. Upon success you will find your new theme under Appearance – Themes.

You have the option to include GPL License Terms if you wish. The Wizard will automatically create a thumbnail too. In future versions I may include an image uploader for this feature.

To find out more about Child Themes and why they are important please read https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

  1. Either: Upload the entire folder child-theme-wizard to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Or: download the ZIP file, then head over to Plugins – Add New – Install, then browse to your file
  3. Or: from Plugins – Add New, search for “child theme wizard”, to find this plugin and hit “install”
  4. Then: Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  5. You can find it under Tools – Child Theme Wizard
  1. create a Child Theme with just one click

    create a Child Theme with just one click

  2. the wizard was successful

    the wizard was successful

  3. you also get a nice thumbnail with your new child theme

    you also get a nice thumbnail with your new child theme

Outstanding. So simple and Effective. Highly recommend

By rjfnz on October 14, 2025

I can recommend for sure. While WordPress shows this plugin as "untested with your version of WordPress" it works perfectly. Simple and fast. Got my Child Themes set up in just a few minutes in WordPress version 6.8.3 and no complications. I would recommend the developer does an update for the compatibility statement so his plugin gets the use and credit it deserves!

It does exactly what I need it to do with minimal fuss.

By Elizabeth Beeton (esb10) on May 28, 2025

I don't need anything fancy. I don't need to have bells and whistles to give it 5 stars. It just has to do what I need done, and I'm happy. FYI: I'm not a bot. I'm leaving this same review on every plugin I use daily and that makes my life easier. I guess I can't say this exactly same thing multiple times.

Great plugin. Simply gets the jobs done.

By globetrekker on April 20, 2024

Great plugin. Simply gets the jobs done and now I know how to setup a child theme. Thank you.

The wizard came through!

By bob0 on September 2, 2023

Two websites with wordpress 6.3 and no problems at all.. Very impressive this child theme is truly a wizard... it is responsive, all my menus were in place links, pictures, sliders and videos..

Thank you

Simple and great!

By dietschi on January 10, 2023

One-klick child theme generator. It just works great!

Great plugin, did what I wanted

By LewisCowles on July 5, 2021

I actually installed another plugin before this one. I wanted to check theme overrides on a VPS (Dreamhost) install. This worked, the other plugin did not! It was simple to use, although if a link to the page to generate could be placed on the plugin listing page, that'd be fantastic. One other minor comment, is that I feel all themes should be lower-case and it generated an uppercase folder... wp-content/themes/Twenty-Twenty-Child Really every theme should have this built-in, it's a great utility and saves a lot of boilerplate generation.

Does not work

By sbisolutions on April 26, 2020

Tells me I already have a directory so does not work...rubbish

This is not what I need

By SoldierOfFortune on February 6, 2020

I don't know why but it changes colors of the titles on pages of my site...

Works Great!

By cthebiz on January 4, 2020

Easy to use.

Does what it says, no premium badges!

By daboon on December 18, 2019

Love this simple plugin, which lets me create child themes in the blink of an eye. No PRO or Premium offers nor banners. The perfect startup companion.

1.4

  • defined the preivously undefined variable $parent_style (thanks, Marcin!)
  • updated links to WordPress Dev Docs

1.3

  • tested compatibility with WordPress 5.1
  • updated link to Codex
  • added version query as suggested in Codex as of 2019

1.2

  • corrected a spelling mistake (thanks, Cory!)

1.1

  • the parent theme is now queued via functions.php

1.0

  • Initial Release
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