How to Automagically Create Child Themes in WordPress

Make it is as easy as possible for theme users to create child themes with this free project. Drop one file into your theme directory, add one line of code to functions.php, and enjoy child theme creation magic.

You already know that if you’re going to modify a WordPress theme you had better be working with a child theme. Modify the theme itself, and all your hard work will be lost the next time the theme is updated. WordPress developers, and most implementers, don’t have any trouble creating a child theme from scratch in just a few minutes. However, that isn’t true for the average WordPress user. The barriers to getting started with WordPress are low en…