Topic: Create multiple Child Themes

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November 26, 2015 at 11:41 pm #680848

Peter Fae
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Hey. I want to experiment with different Child Themes. Can I just copy the Child Theme and give it another name?

November 26, 2015 at 11:51 pm #680855

Rupok
Member

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in! You can use multiple child theme for a parent theme but make sure to use different name on style.css to avoid conflict.

Cheers!

November 27, 2015 at 12:10 am #680873

Peter Fae
Participant

What should the different name in style.css be?

Should the name of the theme be different * and * the different name in style.css?

Can you be more specific please?

November 27, 2015 at 12:26 am #680885
Rue Nel
Moderator
Hello There,

There should be NO changes in the parent X theme. In your child theme, the contents of the style.css should look like this:
```
/*

Theme Name: X &ndash; Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.co/x/
Author: Themeco
Author URI: http://theme.co/
Description: Make all of your modifications to X in this child theme.
Version: 1.0.0
Template: x

*/
```
And if you have created another child theme like my-child-theme which you have placed in wp-contents/themes/my-child-theme, the name of the child theme in the wp-contents/themes/my-child-theme/style.css would probably be like this:
```
/*

Theme Name: My Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.co/x/
Author: Themeco
Author URI: http://theme.co/
Description: Make all of your modifications to X in this child theme.
Version: 1.0.0
Template: x

*/
```
For more information about child themes, please check this out:
https://community.theme.co/kb/how-to-setup-child-themes/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Hope this helps.
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