WordPress Child Themes (ignoring template-tags.php)

Creating child themes isn’t that hard after all and makes automatic theme updates possible without too much worry.

When I set up this site initially, I introduced some changes to the header and footer in their respective php files. Child themes were always an option, but I never used them because I didn’t want to bother with them. There are only a few changes, so I could easily address them when a theme update comes around.

Alas, this is annoying and so I finally created a child theme for twentysixteen. And as it turns out, it wasn’t very hard after all. I just created a folder twentysixteen-child in my WordPress theme folder and added these files:

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