Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
Create Child Themes quickly and easily from any theme that you have currently installed on your site/blog.
4(45 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Child Theme Creator by Orbisius is a WordPress design plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 45 reviews. It has been downloaded 637K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: Layout Grid Block.
4/545 reviews
10K+active installs
637K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
This plugin allows you to quickly create child themes from any theme that you have currently installed on your site/blog.
It also creates rtl.css if exists in the parent theme.
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** Live Demo**
Child Theme Creator Features
- Since v1.4 store your snippets, license keys in Orbisius cloud library. Access them with a click of a button.
- Create a theme with a click of a button
- Uses the recommended approach for loading css (since v.1.3.4)
- Never forget what files to copy and what to skip when creating child themes.
- Copies parent theme’s options (since v.1.3)
- Easy to use interface
- When moving through the themes the currently looked one will have a nice background & border
- Create unlimited child themes from a parent theme. T…
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Ratings & Reviews
445 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and Effective
by John Webber·1 year ago
Does what it was meant to do, with minimal settings. A+
Works great for many years and WPMU too
by SmileWP·3 years ago·1 reply
I use Child Theme Creator by Orbisius on every WP website.
It’s never failed with Divi, Kadence, Avada, and other themes.
My method:
1. Install the theme
2. Activate Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
3. Create child theme
4. Test theme
5. Deactivate* Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
6. (optional*) delete Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
* Keep the plugin installed and/or active if you know you will be changing/testing themes
Works fine
by thepiper·3 years ago
useful
Very simple
by zamaan·3 years ago
This plugin really does what it says. Thank you
Wow, great!
by Greg Raven·4 years ago
I’ve tried only a couple of child theme creator plug-ins because I’m running on Local by Flywheel and the others wigged out. This one not only installed and ran, but gave me some super-nice editing options. Very impressive.
Download Trends
Today: 51Yesterday: 50This week: 359Period total: 27K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.5
94.1%
Other
5.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.6
- reduced the number of tags. WP org complained about having more than 5 tags
- removed cloud library
Contributors
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