Child Theme Wizard Plugin

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

2. 

   the wizard was successful

3. 

   you also get a nice thumbnail with your new child theme

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