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As promised, here is the Twenty Eleven Child Theme (zip 25kb)

Have Questions? Of Course You Do.

What is a Child Theme: A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme.

Why do I need a child Theme? When there is an update to the core features in the parent theme, you can update the theme without affecting the customizations that you’ve made in the Child Theme.

How do I activate the Child Theme? WordPress Child Themes are located in /wp-content/themes/ just like any other WordPress Theme. And they’re also activated from the WordPress admin like any other theme.

Installing a new theme

I don’t use twenty eleven, can I still use your style theme? Yes, just open the “style.css” and update the following lines to suit your own installation.

Theme Name: Twenty Eleven Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
Description: Child theme for customizing Twenty Eleven.
Version: 1.0
Author: WordPress Ann Arbor
Author URI: http://wordpressannarbor.com/
Template: twentyeleven

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

A quick explanation of each line:

• Theme Name: (required) Child theme name.
• Theme URI: (optional) Child theme webpage.
• Description:(optional) What this theme is. E.g.: My first child theme. Hurrah!
• Version: (optional) Child theme version. E.g.: 0.1, 1.0, etc.
• Author: (optional) Author name.
• Author URI: (optional) Author webpage.
• Template: (required) directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive.
• @ import url(“../twentyeleven/style.css”); Change twentyeleven to the directory name of parent theme, case-sensitive