I like twenty ten wordpress theme and I am using for this blog. If you want to customize Twenty Ten you can use my post customize wordpress Twenty Ten where I wrote all the customizations I did in creating a Twenty Ten Child theme presently using for this blog. Twenty Eleven theme is so good if you could modify a bit.
The best way to modify a theme is by creating a child theme because when you update your wordpress you wont loose you modifications and at the same time you can enjoy the original theme. Let us see in simple steps how to create a child theme for WordPress twenty eleven theme.
#1. Login to cpanel and go at this level /public_html/wp-content/themes/
#2. Create a Folder TwentyElevenChildTheme
#3. Go to that Folder and create a blank file called style.css
#4. Add the below lines
/*
Theme Name: TwentyElevenChildTheme
Theme URI: Your URL
Description: My own Twenty Eleven Child Theme
Author: Your name
Template: twentyeleven
*/
@import url('../twentyeleven/style.css');
#5. Login to your wordpress dashboard -> Themes , You can able to see your new theme. Apply it.
#6. Thats it , you created a child theme and if you want to modify any thing. Just write in this style.css which overwrites the existing functionality in twentyeleven style.css
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I really like Twenty Eleven, too. But, I don’t like how it comes up on mobile devices at all. Its supposed to be mobile phone friendly but when I view the theme on my android based samsung galaxy, the main navigation looks horrible, pictures and videos render larger than the screen. Terrible!
I am wanting to add social media icons to the navigation bar in the Twenty Eleven theme … would love it if you could write a tutorial for that on your site
Meg will sure write a post shortly
Thanks so much! I will look forward to seeing it
Thanks for the post. I have a question I hope you can answer. After creating my Child Theme in Twenty Eleven, I then went to APPEARANCE/EDITOR to talk a look at the templates that are normally located in the right column (in the Twenty Eleven Theme). In Twenty Eleven, it lists all the templates including Header, Footer, etc. But in the Child Theme it just says the following and gives this option:
This child theme inherits templates from a parent theme, Twenty Eleven.
Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)
So my question is this: Is the CSS that’s included in the individual templates that are shown in Twenty Eleven default (again, Header, Footer, etc.), simply COMBINED into one file (ie style.c) for the Child Template? If so, do I just go through and look for the code I want to change for a particular attribute?
I realize this is an ignorant question and if I haven’t expressed myself well enough, let me know and I’ll try again – but since I don’t know the answer…I’m hoping somebody can help me! Thanks in advance for any help.
Hi,
If I understood correct, you are asking me that all files in the main theme are can be modified using css file in child theme right ?
Only the style.css is child theme over writes the style.css in the main file so that you can change the font style, size, colors and all other css attributes.
If you want to change the functionality you have to create another file function.php in your child theme so that new functions can be added to that file
Thanks so much – this was helpful!
Hi, presently i am using twenty eleven theme in WP. I have a template (.html), actually a home page.
How to start with these to modify the the current theme.I am a new user of wordpress.please, give me the details..
start with creating a child theme
Hi there;-)
is it somehow possible to change colour of text background in light colour scheme? I do not wish the white one…
Thanks, Slawek
Thank you, this tutorial help me