Create a Theme folder –> create a file called style.css –> fill in the information as outlined below
/*
Theme Name: Helocon Child Theme
Theme URI: https://helocon.com
Description: Helocon Child Theme
Author: Helocon Team
Author URI: https://helocon.com
Template: Helocon
Version: 1.0.0
*/
/* =Theme customization starts here
------------------------------------------------------- */
Enqueue the Parent and Child Theme Stylesheets
Create a file named functions.php and add this code
<?php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = 'parent-style';
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
?>
For another example, if you are creating a child theme for the Twentyseventeen theme, you would replace the tag ‘parent-style’ with ‘twentyseventeen-style’ because when you search for the tag being used by the parent theme, you see this:
