An example child theme for twentyfifteen, created to support a presentation on how to build child themes for the Burlington VT WordPress meetup group. It shows an example of a minor CSS customization, adds a widget area to the home page, enhances the color scheme functionality of the parent, and adds a body font selector to the customizer.

The presentation initially included the following links for more information:

• Wordpress Codex entry for Child Themes tells you most of what you need to know about child themes, with links to additional resources.
• The Genesis Framework by StudioPress is a great example of a theme framework that is designed to support child themes. A variety of child themes for different business niches are available.
• Layers is a free theme framework with a large variety of free and premium child themes available. Premium themes for specific business niches are available from Themeforest.
• A variety of functions are available for referencing files in your child theme and parent theme. These functions are:
  • get_stylesheet_directory_uri() - Get a web URI for the root of your child theme. Helpful for including static assets.
  • get_stylesheet_directory() - Get absolute server path for the root of your child theme. Helpful for including php files.
  • get_template_directory_uri() - Get a web URI for the root of your parent theme. Helpful for including static assets.
  • get_template_directory() - Get absolute server path for the root of your parent theme. Helpful for including php files.