Creating a child theme is a simple step that will allow you to update your active theme in the future without losing all the changes you have made to the template.
1 Step – Find out the name of your active theme
Go to the admin panel of your site yoursiteadress.com/wp-admin
Find active now in the theme directory:
Remember theme name.
2 Step – Create child theme directory
Connect to your site by FTP (We recommend FileZilla client)
Go to the directory /yoursiteadress.com/wp-content/themes/
Find the folder with your active theme
Create a new empty folder and name it yourthemename-child
3 Step – Fill yours child theme
Copy style.csss file from your active theme and place it in the directory of your child theme
Open style.css file in the directory of your child theme and remove everything except the top annotated text.
Make small changes to it by adding to “Theme Name” – “child”
Also add a “Template” string in which you specify the slug of the parent theme:
/* Theme Name: Yourthemename child Author: Author Template: yourthemename Version: 1.0 */
Now you can go to the admin panel of your site and activate a new child theme!