Generate Child Theme

Generate Child Theme allows you to create a child theme of any WordPress theme installed on your blog. The WordPress child theme generator plugin, Generate Child Theme is absolutely free and extremely easy to use as well. The plugin will help you create child themes in just a few minutes. It allows you to quickly create child themes from any theme that you have currently installed on your site. With Generate Child Theme, you will not have to deal with coding, or any configuration while creating a child theme. You will only have to fill up few fields—such as select parent theme, child theme’s name, theme description, author, and version—to create the child theme you desire. Therefore, create your own child theme effortlessly with the new child theme WordPress plugin, Generate Child Theme, and that too, without stressing your wallet

Amazing Features

Lightweight

With the new child theme WordPress plugin, Generate Child Theme, installed, you will not have to worry about your website getting slower. Generate Child Theme is extremely lightweight and doesn’t take much space on your website.

Lesser Configuration

The plugin will work out of the box and only provide you with few configuration option. This means lesser workload for you. You can create your child themes within a few minutes in just a few steps.

Supports all Themes

Generate Child Theme has been crafted in a way that can create a child theme of any WordPress theme as long as they are installed on your website. The plugin functions smoothly on every WordPress theme. Therefore, you will not have to worry about the plugin not being compatible with your WordPress theme to create a child theme.

Plugin Instructions

1) Installation #

a)Using the WordPress Administration Panel

You can download Plugins directly to your blog by using the Add New Plugins option in the Plugins sub-menu.
  1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
  2. Go to "Plugins => Add New"
  3. Search for Generate Child Theme by CatchThemes
  4. Click on "Install Now" install and then "Activate" to activate the Plugin

b)Manual Installation using FTP

To add a new Plugin to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:
  1. Download Generate Child Theme plugin from your Catch Themes https://catchthemes.com/plugins/generate-child-theme/ page to your Desktop
  2. Unzip generate-child-theme.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/plugins/
  4. Upload Generate Child Theme to /wp-content/plugins/
  5. Activate Generate Child Theme through "Plugins", in your WordPress Dashboard

Updating Plugin Using the Administration Panel #

You can update Themes directly from the Administration Panel by simply pressing the update button in the main plugins page.

Updating Plugins Using FTP

To update Plugin though FTP, follow these basic steps:
  1. Download Generate Child Theme from your Catch Themes https://catchthemes.com/plugins/generate-child-theme/ page to your Desktop
  2. Unzip generate-child-theme.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/plugin/ and upload your new copy of Generate Child Theme Plugin which shall replace the old files

Change Log

2.0.1 (Released: February 21, 2024)

  • B Bug Fixed: CSRF vulnerability while generating child theme (Reported by: Darius Sveikauskas https://patchstack.com)

2.0 (Released: November 15, 2023)

  • BCompatibility check up to version 6.4

1.9 (Released: January 30, 2023)

  • Bug Fixed: Issue when child theme name starts from integer

1.8 (Released: November 19, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.1

1.7 (Released: February 24, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.9

1.6 (Released: September 18, 2021)

  • Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls

1.5.3 (Released: August 05, 2021)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.8

1.5.2 (Released: March 07, 2021)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.7

1.5.1 (Released: Aug 19, 2020)

  • Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

1.5 (Released: March 17, 2020)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.4

1.4 (Released: November 12, 2019)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.3

1.3 (Released: August 20, 2019)

  • Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.2
  • Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

1.2 (Released: February 21, 2019)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.1

1.1 (Released: December 12, 2018)

  • Added: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs in Add themes and Add plugins page respectively
  • Added: Themes by Catch Themes section under Themes panel in customizer
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.0

1.0.1 (Released: May 07, 2018)

1.0.0

  • Initial Release

Generate Child Theme