Yes, there are easy ways to make child themes, and some people argue that you don’t even need one.
However, even the naysayers (for the record, I’m in “always use a child theme” group) won’t deny that you need a child theme if you need to modify some theme files.
Also, if you’re going to add some functions, then it’s a must.
So, here’s a simple child theme…
no wait, a FREE DIVI CHILD THEME for you
that allows you to drop any divi section/row/module anywhere with a shortcode.
(See examples of how it can be used here)
1.1.02
– Checked with Divi 4.0.9 -> Works
1.1
– Holy moly, Divi 4 is out. New header, new footer and some stuff added
– I’ve added a jQuery file that adds mouse rollover
1.0.8
– Replaced the header and footer to update for Divi 3.22.4 (just in case I missed anything.
– Added the code where you get the layouts in a shortcode to functions.php
1.0.7
– Replaced the header to update for Divi 3.3.1 (It’s been a while since the header file has changed. Nice)
1.0.6
– added the main.css last in the cascade order (so better priority)
1.0.5
– added admin styles
Enjoy!
Dan Rivera says:
I saw your post from Sept 3 on the divi blog. ” Oh yes. I’m finishing up one of my pet projects, and it uses LD and bbP. Man, did I need to style everything. When that’s done, I might share it. I hope at least… two people are interested. haha ”
Have you finished the project will you be dropping a child theme to integrate the plugins ?
Anonymous says:
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rICHARD says:
The shortcodes are not showing in the library. The functions.php doesn’t contain the shortcode code you have showing in the video.
Rene says:
I wasn’t able to get the Child Theme to work with Version: 4.0.5.
dale says:
seem the child theme breaks when trying to edit in theme builder when using the latest divi 4.0.8 @PK could you check it i guess you need to update the child seeing the log of divi there were lot of changes
Shadowplaystudio Milano says:
Hello. First of all thank you for your useful content!
I wanted to ask you two questions. If I am already using a Divi Child, can I activate yours instead of the other? Second question: will your child Theme (in the case you no longer update him in a short time) will always remain compatible with Divi or could he be causing problems over time? I obviously speak of years time. Thanks a lot and keep it up!
Dragos says:
Hello PK,
I use your Child Themes but I have a problem with the latest update. I have a 404 error in Chrome Dev Tools-Network
The error is fonts.css. I have themes/AI-Child-Theme/css/fonts.css.
I don’t find this file in my cPanel.
I enable the old AI Child theme and the error it disappeared.
Can you please tell me if it is a problem with the latest AI Child Theme?
Thanks
Anna says:
Hi! I get this error when trying to install the child theme:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function elegant_description() in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-content/themes/Divi/header.php:6 Stack trace: #0 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-includes/template.php(730): require_once() #1 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-includes/template.php(676): load_template(‘/Applications/X…’, true, Array) #2 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-includes/general-template.php(48): locate_template(Array, true, true, Array) #3 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-content/themes/Divi/page.php(3): get_header() #4 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include(‘/Applications/X…’) #5 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once(‘/Applications/X…’) #6 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/index.php(17): require(‘/Applications/X…’) #7 {main} thrown in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/wp_fjallmaraton/wp-content/themes/Divi/header.php on line 6
What am I doing wrong? I uploaded your header and functions file.
dalepothen says:
Hi is the child theme working with DiviVersion: 4.9.4 for some reason any changes I make its not show any changes . the changes should be in style.css right not the one in css folder > main.css , adminstyle.css
nordie says:
im sorry but the files cannot be downloaded anymore