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Twenty Fourteen Child Theme

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Another update of WordPress child theme creation.

This time, we are working with Twenty Fourteen theme, the default WordPress 3.8 .

Not different with other themes, the steps will be:

1. Go to WordPress Child Theme Codex page, copy and paste this text. You can also do it from here.

WordPress child theme codex
Copy and paste the red lined WordPress child theme codex.
/*
Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/
Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme
Author: John Doe
Author URI: http://example.com
Template: twentyfourteen
Version: 1.0.0
Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
Text Domain: twenty-fourteen-child
*/
@import url("../twentyfourteen/style.css");

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2. Create a folder, inside wp-content, you can access with FTP client like FileZilla, or access your CPanel directly. I created a “MyTwentyFourteen” as the child theme folder.

wp-content folder
wp-content folder

3. Create MyTwentyFourteen folder, create a file, called, style.css file.

style.css file
style.css file

Paste the selected text you copied from step 1 above.

style.css content
style.css content

Modify a few things if you think it’s necessary, like Theme URI, your name, etc.

You already created your Twenty Fourteen child theme!

In the demo, I change sidebar color to another blue color, with this code:

#secondary{background-color:#4788F4;}

Just as a simple example.

Twenty Fourteen child theme
Twenty Fourteen child theme

Above is the site in the tutorial/video.

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  1. Sueli says

    Thanks for posting this. I have been following your posts for over a year. Your tutorials are the best!

  4. MrTheoker says

    Hey ! I would like to use a child theme but I can’t choose it in the dashboard.
    Can you help me ?

    Thanks !

    • Kim Muellner says

      Hello,

      Did you create a folder inside wp-content as your child theme folder? You need to create it first, before you can choose it in your dashboard.

      Let me know if I can help you more.

      Kindly Kim.

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