Child Theme Configurator

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Child Theme Configurator is a fast and easy to use utility that allows you to analyze any theme for common problems, create a child theme and customize it beyond the options of the Customizer. Designed for WordPress users who want to be able to customize child theme stylesheets directly, Child Theme Configurator lets you easily identify and override the exact CSS attributes you want to customize. The Analyzer scans the rendered theme and automatically configures your child theme. It correctly enqueues theme and font stylesheets for optimum performance and handles vendor-specific syntax, giving you unlimited control over the Child Theme look and feel while leaving your Parent Theme untouched. Learn more about how to create a child theme.

Take Control of Your Child Themes

Child Theme Configurator parses and indexes your stylesheets so that every CSS media query, selector, property and value are at your fingertips. Second, it shows you how each customization you make will look before you commit it to the child theme. Finally, it saves your work so that you can customize styles in your child themes without the risk of losing your edits.

You can create any number of child themes from your existing Parent Themes. Child Theme Configurator lets you choose from your installed themes (even existing child themes) and save the results in your Themes directory.

When you are ready, just activate the Child Theme and your WordPress site takes on the custom styles automatically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL0YmieF6d0

Why create child themes and customize styles using Child Theme Configurator?

  1. Some things cannot be changed using the Customizer.

  2. Unless you use a child theme, you will lose any changes you made to templates and stylesheets when you update.

  3. Child Theme Configurator automatically determines the correct way to set up a child theme based on the theme you are using.

  4. You can find the exact style selectors your theme uses and change properties quickly.

  5. You can locate, copy and edit theme templates from the admin.

  6. Much more:

    • Update themes without losing customizations
    • Smart Theme Analyzer determines correct settings to use
    • Resolve common child theme issues with almost any parent theme
    • Copy existing widgets, menus and Customizer options to child theme
    • Use web fonts in your child theme
    • Enqueue (link) stylesheets instead of using @import
    • Quickly locate and edit theme CSS.
    • Customize @media queries for responsive design
    • Select hex, RGBA (transparent) and named colors using Spectrum color picker
    • Add fallback styles (multiple values per property)
    • Save hours of development time
    • Multisite compatible
    • Make modifications unavailable to the Customizer
    • Export child themes as Zip Archive
    • Identify and override exact selectors from the parent theme
    • Change specific colors, backgrounds, font styles, etc., without changing other elements
    • Automatically generate cross-browser and vendor-prefixed properties and CSS gradients
    • Preview custom styles before committing to them
    • Uses WP Filesystem API will not create files you cannot remove

Child Theme Configurator PRO

Apply the CSS customizing power of Child Theme Configurator to any WordPress Plugin installed on your website. Child Theme Configurator PRO scans your plugins and lets you customize their stylesheets. Weve added more features to make customizing styles quicker and easier with PRO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwCk43a8c

Learn more at http://www.childthemeplugin.com/child-theme-configurator-pro

Unlimited Widget Content With a Single Plugin

IntelliWidget is a versatile widget manager that does the work of multiple plugins by combining custom page menus, featured posts, sliders and other dynamic content features that can display on a per-page or site-wide basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttw1xIZ2b-g

Learn more at https://www.lilaeamedia.com/plugins/intelliwidget

Hook Highlighter

Hook Highlighter provides Administrators insight into the internal program flow of WordPress when activated on any front-facing page of a website.

Display action and filter hooks, program files and backtrace information inline for the current page.

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Learn more at https://www.lilaeamedia.com/product/hook-highlighter


Releases (108 )

Version Release Date Change Log
2.6.0 2022-10-29
  • Preview class now evaluates stylesheet hooks as they fire instead of calling them again to prevent function exists errors.
  • Tested for PHP version 7.1
  • See changelog for details.
2.5.9 2022-03-21
  • Preview class now evaluates stylesheet hooks as they fire instead of calling them again to prevent function exists errors.
  • Tested for PHP version 7.1
  • See changelog for details.
2.5.8 2021-01-31
  • Fixed some stylesheet issues
2.5.6 2020-08-12
  • WP 5.5 update removed commonL10n - causing scripts to break - replaced with CTC getxt value.
2.5.5 2020-06-09
  • Removed curly brace syntax from substring argument in Packer class.
2.5.4 2020-06-07
  • Fixed case where registered styles not showing in queue during analysis.
2.5.3 2020-05-24
  • Fixes to stylesheet. Updates to help tabs.
2.5.2 2020-03-11
  • Logic to prevent malformed style properties
  • Minor cosmetic changes
2.5.1 2020-01-05
  • Preview class now evaluates stylesheet hooks as they fire instead of calling them again to prevent function exists errors.
  • Tested for PHP version 7.1
  • See changelog for details.
2.5.0 2019-06-10
  • Preview class now evaluates stylesheet hooks as they fire instead of calling them again to prevent function exists errors.
  • Tested for PHP version 7.1
  • Modified input parser to allow multi-stop background gradients.
2.4.4 2019-03-01
  • Analyzer now saves all signals on successful child theme regardless of analysis results.
  • This fixes a bug in some themes where the enqueue hooks were being rewitten incorrectly after adding web fonts.
2.4.3 2019-02-17
  • Fixed a serious regression bug created by version 2.4.2.
2.4.2 2019-02-17
  • Added call to customizer.php to initialize theme mods prior to analyzing child theme
  • Deferred copy_theme_mods until after child theme analysis. This allows hooks in Preview to initialize custom theme mods
  • Added mpriority (max priority) to CSS object to accommodate multiple irregular stylesheet hooks
  • Restored original (pre 2.4.1) version filter hook style_loader_src to child theme stylesheets to prevent caching
  • Strip closing php tag from functions.php to prevent premature response header
2.4.1 2019-01-20
  • Fixed localization issues (thanks @alexclassroom for identifying these)
  • Modified style_loader_src hook to only add timestamp under certain conditions to prevent loading delay for most requests. (thanks @anthony750)
2.4.0 2019-01-14
  • Automatically add action parent RTL stylesheet when child theme does not have one.
  • Handle case where parent theme changes queue action incorrectly points to non-existent child theme stylesheet.
  • Correctly copies customizer css to child theme.
2.3.0.4 2018-06-11
  • strip scripts during template scan to prevent false positives
2.3.0.3 2018-06-08
  • check file size during template scan to prevent timeout
  • changed syntax of statement that was being flagged by WP Defender
2.3.0.2 2018-05-31
  • Fixed bug in screenshot copy.
2.3.0.1 2018-05-25
  • Fixed incorrect reference to errors array in UI.
2.3.0 2018-05-23
  • Added ability to rename @media query
  • Added height/Width for theme images on Files Tab
  • Added test for RTL in Analyzer
  • Added test cases for WP Rocket and AutOptimize plugins in Analyzer
  • Added redirect for error condition after configurator POST
  • Clarified descriptions for certain Analyzer signal conditions
  • Set priority of child theme css hook to force load after parent
  • Remove pruned selectors from menu
2.2.9 2018-03-09

Modified preview to include all registered stylesheets in queue Disable Autoptimize in preview

2.2.8.1 2017-11-27

Added support for General Sibling Selector (~)

2.2.8 2017-07-10
  • Fixed CSS class loading FALSE for dictionaries on fresh install
  • Fixed using wrong nonce for plugin mode preview (Pro)
  • Fixed error thrown when packing negative integers (Pro)
2.2.7 2017-07-07
  • Disable Pagespeed in preview
2.2.6 2017-06-19
  • Fixed Preview and Analyzer for some child theme configurations by removing nonce requirement
  • Fixed header not being repaired on first pass with "Repair Header" selected
  • Fixed styles being pruned before new "Raw CSS" styles are added
2.2.5 2017-06-17
  • Fixed Preview and Analyzer for some child theme configurations by removing nonce requirement
  • Fixed header not being repaired on first pass with "Repair Header" selected
  • Fixed styles being pruned before new "Raw CSS" styles are added
2.2.4.1 2017-02-02
  • Fix bug in parent dependencies
2.2.4 2017-01-31
  • Fix bug where stylesheet dependency arrays are not being initialized
  • Add action hook to extend copy theme settings feature
  • Display non active tabs, enable upgrade/register before config data is created
2.2.3 2017-01-20
  • Show raw results after Analysis to help debugging
  • Fix javascript not escaping quotes in input fields
  • Restored original ajax preview and added fallback method for cross-domain preview
2.2.2 2017-01-20
  • Fix in Analyzer to help debugging
2.2.1 2016-12-29
  • Fix in javascript affecting Pro users
2.2.0 2016-12-28
  • Cross domain Parse error
  • Showing "reconfigure" message on new install
  • Manual upgrade Pro from plugin
  • Add pre_option stylesheet and template filters to Preview class
  • Use child theme name on duplicate
  • Ability to force/unforce dependency
  • Identify and handle imported stylesheets, convert to links
  • Fixes related to testing if CTC Pro is installed
1.7.9 2016-12-20
  • Fix: use nonce when retrieving front-end html to parse default additional stylesheets
  • Refactored classes to make Child Theme Configurator more lightweight on front end
1.7.9.1 2016-12-20
  • Fix: regression bug in 1.7.9 causing new property menu to fail
2.0.6 2016-12-20
  • Fix: preview not parsing parent styles correctly when minimized.
  • Fix: cast argument to array in sort functions.
  • Updated Child Theme Configurator language template.
2.1.2 2016-12-08
  • Fixes related to testing if CTC Pro is installed.
2.1.1 2016-08-16
  • change packer class to use standard < 5.4 array syntax
2.1.0 2016-08-14
  • Loading dictionaries on demand
  • Reversed key/value dictionary structure for huge memory improvement
  • Added packer class to flatten multidim arrays for huge memory improvement
  • Reduced key name lengths throughout
  • Improved data validation on inputs
  • Minimum Pro version
  • Move html output to separate view includes
  • Move theme mod routines to own functions
2.0.5 2016-06-01
  • Updated child theme preview class to use is_theme_active and other methods to eliminate conflicts with Jetpack and any other plugin that references the customize manager.
2.0.4 2016-05-27
  • Updated preview class to send origin headers and run customize_preview_init action along with some other actions.
2.0.3 2016-05-16
  • Added logic conditions in preview class to help prevent Analyzer from failing in some cases
  • Enabled theme zip file export for any selected theme independent of theme currently loaded in Configurator
  • Fixed bugs present with servers not running Apache with SuExec
  • Fixed issue with Windows servers that do not return C: with filesystem paths
2.0.2 2016-04-06
  • Automatically set priority of enqueue hook based on value from parent theme
  • Made file scan routine more efficient
  • Support for background-image as base64 data
  • Tweaked analyzer signals
2.0.1 2016-03-30
  • Updated language template and de_DE files
  • Fix: case where child stylesheet link was not being added resulting in "This child theme does not load a Configurator stylesheet" notice
  • Fix: fatal error in debug mode
  • Minor bug fixes
2.0.0 2016-03-29
  • New Theme Analyzer automatically checks for issues and determines correct settings
  • Step by step setup of Parent/Child settings
  • Simplified parent stylesheet handling options
  • Option to write new child theme styles to a separate stylesheet
  • Uses WordPress style dependencies to ensure correct child theme stylesheet load order
  • Automatically repairs themes that use outdated stylesheet handling methods
  • Parses parent theme files and only displays templates that can be be overridden by child themes
  • Numerous minor bug fixes
1.7.8 2015-09-24
  • Fix: disable autoload on configuration data options
  • Fix: normalize media query and add to menu when added via raw css
1.7.7 2015-09-17
  • Fix: Margin and Padding shorthand generated incorrectly.
1.7.6.1 2015-09-05
  • Addressed case where parent or child theme is in subdirectory.
  • Minimized admin CSS.
1.7.6 2015-08-13
  • Sanitize child theme slug
  • Remove cascade load order comments from generated CSS
  • Set admin background to prevent theme override
1.7.5.1 2015-07-27
  • Refactored background normalization function to better follow CSS specification.
  • Check child theme exists function case-insensitive.
  • Changed chldthmcfg.init() call to fire on load instead of .ready() to prevent JS conflicts
1.7.5 2015-06-27
  • Uses spectrum color picker to support transparency and named colors.
  • Refactored entire system to support fallback values for any property.
  • Fix path when duplicating child theme on first run
  • New Feature: "delete child values" button - easily revert styles in child theme stylesheet
1.7.4.2 2015-04-24
  • Will not write child theme stylesheet if error detected in functions.php
1.7.4.1 2015-04-20
  • Fixed minified JS
1.7.4 2015-04-11
  • Restored multisite admin menu link under Tools by popular demand
  • Automatically Network enables new child theme on creation
  • Fix for FTP notice - now uses PHP_OS constant to detect win vs nix
  • Added duplicate child theme feature
1.7.3.1 2015-03-25

Version 1.7.3 now converts @import statements to link tags and checks parent theme for hard-coded stylesheet link tags and other problematic code issues. 1.7.3.1 added dismiss option to warnings by popular demand.

1.7.3 2015-03-24
  • Changed @import tab to "Web Fonts." @import statements are automatically converted to enqueued external links.
  • Added "Enqueue both parent and child stylesheets" option to enable child theme overrides without using @import.
  • Added checks for hard-coded link tags in header template to help resolve incorrect stylesheet load order.
  • Fix: "Enqueue child stylesheet" now passes correct value.
1.7.2.1 2015-03-11
  • Fix: hide called before iris init
  • Fix: @import not being written on rebuild/configure
  • Fix: min height on rule/value panel
  • Only prune child theme selectors on rename
1.7.2 2015-03-08
  • Fix: @import not being written on rebuild/configure
  • Fix: min height on rule/value panel
  • Only prune child theme selectors on rename
1.7.1 2015-02-25

Removed conflicting wistia javascript link

1.7.0 2015-02-21
  • New Feature: Enqueue child theme stylesheet option for themes that do not load it.
  • New Feature: Child Theme and Author website, description and tag fields.
  • Fix: Redesigned UI Javascript using jQuery objects for better browser memory management.
  • Fix: Child Theme Stylesheet version is timestamped to force browser reload after changes.
1.6.5.2 2015-02-07
  • Fix: Empty functions file created causing inserted markers to be output to browser.
  • Fix: check for closed PHP tag in functions file prior to inserting markers
1.6.5.1 2015-02-05
  • Fix: undefined constant LILAEAMEDIA_URL
  • Fix: logic to determine whether to display config notice
1.6.5 2015-01-29
  • Fix: incorrect path generation and validation on Windows servers
  • Added error handling and notification to prevent jQuery conflicts and out of memory conditions
  • Fix: removed max-height on rule/value overlay
  • Added debug option
1.6.4 2015-01-19
  • New Feature: Copy selector button for Raw CSS textarea on Query/Selector tab.
  • Fix: Menus rendering incorrectly for RTL locales
  • Fix: Border-top etc. not being written correctly to stylesheet
  • Fix: Refactored ajax semaphore logic and flow
1.6.3 2015-01-04
  • New Feature: Better child theme handling for multisite. Moved interface to Themes menu and check for network enabled.
  • Fix: Restrict child theme configurator access to install_themes capability
  • Fix: Preview links to Themes admin if not network enabled to prevent 'Cheatin, uh?' error.
1.6.2.1 2014-12-30
  • Fix: Regular expression introduced in version 1.6.2 parses selectors incorrectly.
1.6.2 2014-12-20
  • Fix: replaced wp_normalize_path with class method to support legacy WP versions
  • Fix: support for multiple layered background images
  • Fix: background:none being parsed into gradient origin parameter
  • Fix: support for data URIs
  • Fix: support for *
1.6.1 2014-12-06
  • Fix: add check if theme uses hard-wired stylesheet link and alert to use @import instead of link option
  • Fix: conflicts with using jQuery UI from CDN - using local version of 1.11.2 Widget/Menu/Selectmenu instead
  • Fix: using wp-color-picker handle instead of iris as dependency to make sure wpColorPicker() methods are loaded
  • Fix: copy parent theme widgets logic different if child or parent are active theme
1.6.0 2014-12-03
  • New Feature: option to load parent stylesheet using wp_enqueue_style (link), @import or none. Thanks to cmwwebfx and Shapeshifter3 for pushing me on this
  • New Feature: automatically-generated child theme slug and name
  • New Feature: restore from backup and reset options
  • New Feature: backup files to "Child Theme Files" on Files Tab so they can be deleted
  • New Feature: Added new theme chooser select menu with screenshot, theme info and link to live preview.
  • Fix: Admin scripts now only load when CTC page is being viewed.
  • Fix: parent CSS preview to correctly display all parsed parent stylesheets in sequence
  • Fix: Refactored throughout for maintainability
1.5.4 2014-11-22
  • New Feature: Load imported stylesheets into the CTC admin so web fonts can be previewed.
  • Set preview swatch to z-index -1 to prevent it from covering up the controls
  • Spread config data across multiple option records to prevent out of memory errors with large stylesheets.
  • Do not automatically select Bootstrap CSS files as additional stylesheets to (greatly) reduce overhead.
  • Add jQuery UI styles that are no longer being loaded by default in the WP admin (autoselect menus).
1.5.3 2014-11-20
  • Fixed a bug in the way zero values are handled that was breaking css output in certian situations
  • Added regex filter for non-printable (e.g., null) characters in input strings
1.5.2.2 2014-10-17
  • Adding the additional styles to the parent CSS preview in v1.5.2(.1) introduced a bug
  • that copied all of the parent styles to the child stylesheet. This is fixed in v1.5.2.2.
  • Rolled back changes to the javascript controller that introduced a number of type errors.
  • Tweaked preview ajax call to handle ssl.
1.5.2.1 2014-10-15
  • Automatically set additional stylesheets to parse based on parent theme links in head.
  • Render parent CSS including additional stylesheets
1.5.2 2014-10-15
  • Automatically set additional stylesheets to parse based on parent theme links in head.
  • Render parent CSS including additional stylesheets
1.5.1 2014-10-02
  • Added copy option to Parent/Child tab to assign menu locations, sidebars/widgets, custom header, background, and other options to the new Child Theme.
1.5.0 2014-09-27
  • We have completely refactored CTC to use the WP_Filesystem API.
  • If your web host is configured to use suExec (meaning it runs under the user of the web account being accessed), the changes will be completely transparent.
  • Other configurations will now require user credentials to add, remove or update Child Theme files.
  • To make things easier we added the ability for you to make the files writable while editing and then make them read-only when you are done.
  • You can also set your credentials in wp-config.php: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants
  • Contact us at http://www.lilaeamedia.com/about/contact if you have any questions.
1.4.8.1 2014-09-01

Removed backtrace in main CSS parser regex due to high memory usage. This should fix the 500 Server errors from large parent stylesheets

1.4.8 2014-08-30
  • Removed backtrace in main CSS parser regex due to high memory usage.
1.4.7 2014-08-23
  • Fixed uninitialized variable in files UI.
1.4.6 2014-08-10
  • Feature: export child theme as zip archive
  • Added transform to list of vendor rules
  • Bug fixed: parser not loading multiple instances of same @media rulesets
  • Refactored uploader to use wp core functions for compatibility and security
  • Increased CHLD_THM_CFG_MAX_RECURSE_LOOPS to 1000 to accommodate complex parent frameworks
1.4.5.2 2014-07-16
  • Fix: javascript bug
1.4.5.1 2014-07-16
  • Fix: regression bug - sanitizing broke raw input selectors
1.4.5 2014-07-15
  • Fix: escape quotes in text inputs. This has bugged me for a while now.
  • Fix: Escape backslash for octal content values. Thanks Laurent for reporting this.
  • Fix: Normalize colors to lowercase and short form when possible to prevent duplicate entries in the data
1.4.4 2014-07-07
  • Refactored the way CTC caches updates and returns them to the UI controller to reduce memory consumption.
  • Prevent out of memory fatals when generating new child theme.
  • Changed "Scan Parent for Additional Stylesheets" to individual checkbox options for each file with a toggle to show/hide in the Parent/Child tab.
  • Added automatic update of form when Parent Theme is changed.
  • Pre-populate Parent/Child form when parent slug is passed to CTC options.
1.4.3 2014-05-21
  • updated parser to match selectors containing parentheses and empty media rulesets
1.4.1 2014-04-26
  • Tweaked the Files tab options and added check for DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT
  • Removed automatic @import rules for additional stylesheets that are loaded.
  • Fixed bug caused by new jQuery .css function handling of empty css values (preview swatch).
1.0.0 2014-04-25
  • Initial release.

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1.0.1 2014-04-25
  • Updates to Readme.txt
1.4.0 2014-04-25
  • New Feature: Theme Files tab:
  • Copy parent templates to child theme to be edited using the Theme Editor.
  • Remove child theme templates.
  • Upload child theme images.
  • Remove child theme images.
  • Upload child theme screenshot.
1.3.4 2014-04-14
  • Fixes a bug with the way the @import data is stored that threw errors on php 5.3 and corrupted v1.3.2 @import data.
1.3.5 2014-04-14
  • Fixes a bug with the way the @import data is stored that threw errors on php 5.3 and corrupted v1.3.2 @import data.
1.3.3 2014-04-11
  • New Feature: option to scan parent theme for additional stylesheets. This allows CTC to be used with themes such as "Responsive" by CyberChimps.
  • New Feature: automatically copies parent theme screenshot to child.
1.3.2 2014-03-29
  • Fixed unquoted regex pattern in file path security check function. Thanks to buzcuz for reporting this.
1.3.1 2014-03-10
  • Updated help tab content. Added additional sanitization of source and target file paths.
1.3.0 2014-03-08
  • Changed CSS preview to retrieve directly from WordPress Admin instead of remote http GET to prevent caching issues.
  • Added loading icon for CSS preview.
  • Fixed JS type error on backup toggle.
  • Improved extensibility throughout.
1.2.3 2014-03-03
  • Replace PHP short tags with standard codes.
1.2.2 2014-02-19
  • New Features: You can now rename selectors in place from the Query/Selector panel. Made stylesheet backup optional. Bugs fixed: Incorrect parsing of background position when '0', fixed type error when background image url value is removed.
1.2.1 2014-02-10
  • Bugs fixed: "star hack" rules no longer throwing js error. Important flag now works on borders and gradients.
1.2.0 2014-01-30
  • New features: Link to Query/Selector tab from specific Rule/Value selector, new rule focus on adding new rule. Bugs fixed: clear Query/Selector inputs when loaded selector is empty, use latest min.js script.
1.1.9 2014-01-24
  • Added check for writability before attempting to create child theme files to avoid fatal error on servers not running suEXEC. Fixed a bug in the ctc_update_cache function that was throwing a fatal JS error when new media queries were saved via the Raw CSS input. Configurator now adds functions.php file to child theme when it does not exist.
1.1.8 2014-01-18
  • Added reorder sequence and important flag functionality. Fixed bug where multiple inputs with same selector/rule combo were assigned the same id. Fixed bug in the shorthand encoding routine.
1.1.7 2014-01-02
  • Added tutorial video to help tabs.
1.1.6 2013-12-21
  • Added call to reset_updates() before update_option() to prevent serialization errors.
1.1.5 2013-12-21
  • Query/Selector panel now defaults to 'base'
  • Fixed bug causing background-image with full urls (http://) to be parsed as gradients
  • Fixed bug causing rule menu to throw error when selector has no rules
1.1.4 2013-12-17
  • Fixed sort bug in shorthand parser that was returning rules in wrong order
1.1.3 2013-12-15
  • Fixed bug that assumed lowercase only for theme slugs. (Thanks to timk)
  • Fixed update redirect to execute on first run
1.1.2 2013-12-10
  • Small bug fix to javascript (casting number to string)
1.1.1 2013-12-09
  • Fixed major bug where inputs containing '0' were being ignored
  • Removed "no leading digits" requirement for theme slug
  • Change query sort function to keep parent order of queries without device width rules
  • Fixed gettext calls to use static namespace parameter
  • Auto populate child theme inputs when existing theme is selected
  • Correctly remove border when values are blanked
  • Fixed duplicate "new rule" bug on Query/Selector panel
  • added timestamp to backup file
  • Added encode_shorthand function to recombine margin/padding values when all 4 sides are present
1.1.0 2013-12-08
  • Corrected parsing for certain backgrounds and gradients (e.g., supports hsla color syntax)
  • Handle empty selectors
  • Ajax load for menus and updates
  • Clean up Parent/Child form UI and validation
  • Streamlined UI overall