By Rocco Aliberti

July 20, 2021

Childify Me Plugin

Create a child-theme from the Theme Customizer.

Create child themes from any non-child theme directly from the Theme Customizer panel.

Works also when previewing a theme before activation!

Multisite compatible.

Plugin Features

FTP credential requests handled in the Customizer.
Child-theme’s screenshot generated from the parent screenshot, with a ribbon dynamically added.
Child-theme’s author dynamically generated from the user Name and Last Name, if set, otherwise falls back on a generic “Administrator”.

Credits

Thanks to @nikeo for spurring me, testing my plugin and for his valuable advices
Thanks to @rdellconsulting for testing my plugin even on multisite and for his valuable advices

Translations

The plugin is translation ready.

Most of the previously bundled Childify Me translations (see the list below) have been succesfully ported to translate.wordpress.org.

German ( by @presskopp )
Portuguese ( by @wph4 )
Dutch ( by @wph4 )

Childify Me also bundles the following languages (.pot file included in childify-me/lang):

Russian ( by @baneff )
Ukrainian ( by @baneff )
Hebrew ( by @JTS-IL )

Many thanks to these generous users 🙂

Installation

Install the plugin right from your WordPress admin in plugins > Add New.
1-bis. Download the plugin, unzip the package and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin
Go to Appearance -> Customize and you’ll see the “Childify Me” button.
3-bis. In Appearance -> Themes, hover on a non-child theme and click on Live Preview, once there you’ll see the “Childify Me” button

Screenshots

Childify Me creating a child-theme of Customizr-Pro's from the Customizer
Childify Me asking for ftp credentials (if you don't have direct access to the filesystem)
Childify Me succesfully created your child-theme - Yor child-theme in Appearance -> Themes
Childify Me in multisite environment creating a child-theme of Twenty Twelve's from Live Preview

FAQ

I’m in Appearance -> Customize but I cannot find the “Childify Me” button, why?

Is your theme a non-child theme? Childify Me is designed to make child themes only for non-child themes.

I created a child theme from Preview, but when I back to Appearance -> Themes I cannot see it, why?

Please, refresh the page.

How can I create a child-theme in multisite?

Go to Appearance -> Customize (or to Appearance -> Themes, if you want to create a child-theme of a
non-active theme, hover on a non-child theme and click on Live Preview)

I created a child-theme but I lost my menu, how so?

This is because some options aren’t really part of the theme options.
Basically you can consider them as options related to theme. WordPress saves them in a different db row of the wp-options table.
From the Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Note: You may need to re-save your menu (Appearance > Menus, or Appearance > Customize > Menus) and theme options
(including background and header images) after activating the child theme.

Why my child-theme’s screenshot doesn’t have the ribbon?

That feature is implemented using some functions of the PHP GD module.
So you need a PHP version >= 4.0 and the GD module installed and loaded.

Why for some themes the child-theme style.css uses the @import directive ?

Please read this topic

Changelog

1.2.3 : July 20, 2021

Code clean-up.

1.2.2 : November 27, 2020

fix buttons css

1.2.1 : February 20, 2020

capitalPdangit(readme.txt)
bump Tested up to

1.2.0 : July 24, 2018

Imp: improve WP PHPcs
Imp: autodetect parent screenshot size
Imp: create child screenshot png also from parent jpeg files
Imp: improve javascript
Imp: improve child badge
Rm: remove translations already hosted on wp.org

1.1.1 : September 20, 2017

Imp: add hueman-pro as special theme

1.1.0 : June 08, 2017

Imp: generated screenshot size now follows latest wp recommandations
Fix: cm container was partially visible in the new open custom css box

1.0.15 : May 12, 2016

Imp: Add domainpath and textdomain to the plugin header

1.0.14 : May 06, 2016

Add: Improved child-theme creation for Hueman theme
Imp: small css fixes
Imp: restrict plugin scope to is_admin() == true
Upd: update Tested up to WordPress version version 4.5.1

1.0.13 : Nov 26, 2015

Add: Fix rtl CSS: Many thanks to Yaacov Glezer
Upd: update Tested up to WordPress version version 4.4

1.0.11 : Sep 08, 2015

Add: Hebrew translation: Many thanks to Yaacov Glezer

1.0.10 : May 07, 2015

Fix: readme typo

1.0.9 : May 06, 2015

Add: added Portuguese and Dutch translations: Many thanks to @wph4

1.0.8 : April 21, 2015

Fix: minor css fix to radio buttons

1.0.7 : March 26, 2015

Fix: fix css according to some Customizr theme css in the customize

1.0.6 : March 22, 2015

Add: added Russian and Ukrainian translations. Many thanks to @baneff

1.0.5 : February 08, 2015

Fix: for security reasons, fallback on generic “Administrator” if no user Name and Last name are set
Fix: translations updated

1.0.4 : February 02, 2015

Fix: fix typo while creating child-theme screenshot.png

1.0.3 : February 02, 2015

Fix: handle parent 8 bit colormap screenshot.png

1.0.2 : January 19, 2015

Fix: cancel button bug, css form padding

1.0.1 : January 19, 2015

Fix: improve compatibility with PHP versions < 3.5.3
Fix: css, change some padding

1.0.0 : January 03, 2015

First offical release!