Divi Child Themes: Beginner Guide [2022]

👏Really super great tutorial. I do have a question, if I want to use the divi theme in a parent theme to I upload it into the parent theme and activate it there. I am confused because I feel like it would overwrite the current divi theme. Any help/insight would help. Thanks again for the video and any help.

How can I create my own premium divi child themes? Those one that once installed, all you need is to import the content and that's it?

Love your work! Very Helpful. Question; I have some of my own divi sites already 85% finished. Will adding a new child theme now automatically incorporate all of the existing design & code from the site that's already there? Thanks & Merry Christmas!

If I create a child theme, but make changes via the divi interface directly (ie not coding) will that structure be saved as part of the child theme?

Hi Ania, great presentation. Thank you. I created a site about 2 years ago using Divi, but I did not use a child theme. Can I create a child theme now, after already having the site built? I did not add too much CSS in my site but I would like to do more CSS in the future. Is this possible?

hello, very good video, thank you, a paid child theme of divi and somehow a layouts that can be found in the divi library but with the child theme option?

Thank you for a nice and clear tutorial, explained very well, simply to the point and unassumingly, what the function of the child theme is, and how it may or may not be necessary depending on website needs. This is the first time I no longer feel confused about whether I really need this now or not. A welcome new channel :)

Hi Ania, great tutorial like always! 🙂 Do you know why after installation and activation of DIVI theme the Theme File Editor of WordPress disappeared? I can install my child theme but the editor under Appearance is gone. It happend right after DIVI theme. Without it was still there, even after change of the theme it does not come back. Thanks in advance for your help.

"child themes" is one of those things often mentioned, often in dire like terms, yet no one really explains... thank you! this makes it all much more clear. it also makes me think maybe the investment in a well developed child theme for clients may really be worth the cost.... now i have another suggestion for a tutorial that no one really addresses fully, and that is how to hand off a Divi website to a client, either fully or in part if i am providing a maintenance plan. it's hard to understand what the client needs to do... surely NOT buy the divi package? but yes, probably download wordpress? there are many questions about all of this. if you want me to elaborate let me know, but i think this would be helpful to many beginning web builders.

Thanks! Just into DIVI, glad to learn from you!

So if you are not inserting any custom CSS, Javascript, or PHP into the theme, there is no reason to use a child theme, isn't that correct?

thank you so much for these type of videos I´d like to ask if I am using wordpressmultisite with divi, I only have access to the theme editor from the network dashborad, in the main style.css file is where I should add my custom css or the same with the php in the functions.php or each subsite should have it´s own child theme?

Ania, I have just been through weeks of pure hell trying to use the Newspaper 11 theme. After some three hundred emails back and forth with their support and a final fatal crash when I ran their theme update I gave up and went back to divi. Although, yes, I am a divi lover, having designed a number of sites with it, I am disappointed that is does not have the same features for different post groupings grid layouts, although I have watched your video on changing the blog layouts. The first site I am designing is going to be the "template" for forty-nine other sites, so my question is if I should be using the child theme? Other than the CSS I might use from you I can't see ever making any changes to the core files because I'm not smart enough. Appreciate your advice.

Brilliant. A great explanation for when NOT to use it.

Hi there, thank you for the video!

I've downloaded the divi-child-theme template - can I just remove the _MACOSX folder and the .DS_store file inside the child theme folder? First time i've seen a child theme so sorry if it's a silly question!

mam, your all videos are amazing. Please make videos on theme development.

Nice video

Two questions though . First what about speed with a child theme ? Second what if you only need to add one little thing to functions.php ? Do you then need a child theme or is there a plugin for that ?