From the course: WordPress: Building Child Themes

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From the course: WordPress: Building Child Themes

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- [Patrick] Building a WordPress child theme is one of the first steps that you can take towards becoming a WordPress developer. And by developer, I mean someone who can interact with code. Building your own child theme is such a great starting point because you're taking an existing theme and you're modifying it. And the skills you use to customize a theme are the same skills that you use to modify or write your own plugins. So this really is the foundation of being a WordPress developer. My name is Patrick Rauland, and 10 years ago, I learned how to be a WordPress developer by creating my own child theme. And I liked the platform so much, I spent the next decade going deeper and deeper into the WordPress world. Join me in my LinkedIn Learning Course as we build our very own child theme by taking an existing theme and modifying it. We'll customize it so it's a perfect match for our brand. And the benefits of a child theme are that when the parent theme updates, let's say to take advantage of new functionality, you can take advantage of that functionality without having to code anything yourself. Get ready to level up your WordPress development skills.

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