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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.

To find out more about child themes and why they are useful, please read the WordPress Developer Docs on 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 – Upload Plugin, 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 completed successfully.

    The wizard completed successfully.

  3. Your new child theme appears under Appearance - Themes with a thumbnail.

    Your new child theme appears under Appearance - Themes with a thumbnail.

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.

1.5

  • Security: added CSRF nonce protection to the creation form
  • Security: parent theme selection now validated server-side against installed themes
  • Security: all HTML output is now properly escaped
  • Fixed: incorrect admin URL argument that broke the “Try again” link
  • Fixed: missing closing tag
  • Fixed: thumbnail copy now uses the filesystem path instead of an HTTP URL, fixing failures on hosts with allow_url_fopen disabled
  • Fixed: uninstall.php guard order corrected per WordPress standards
  • Replaced direct PHP file functions (fopen, fwrite, fclose, mkdir, copy) with WP_Filesystem API
  • Added PHP 8.2 return type declarations
  • Removed unused ctw_testing() function
  • Form layout updated to use WordPress standard form-table markup
  • Tested with WordPress 7.0

1.4

  • Defined the previously 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 stylesheet is now enqueued via functions.php

1.0

  • Initial release
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