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Plugin info

Total downloads: 20,481
Active installs: 800
Total reviews: 8
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 6 language(s)
Contributors: 11
Last updated: 7/6/2024 (543 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 9/26/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.6.4
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 543 days ago • 8 reviews

28/100

Is Child Theme Check abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 543 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.6.0
Tested up to: 6.6.4
Requires PHP: f

Ratings

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Developers

Hinnerk Altenburg (Owner)1Caspar Hübinger (Owner)1Drivingralle (Owner)2Torsten Landsiedel (Owner)4Frank Neumann-Staude (Owner)15Frank Neumann-Staude6Torsten Landsiedel4Drivingralle3Hinnerk Altenburg2Ralf Koller1Caspar Hübinger1

Languages

Russian27,196German19,853Italian15,565German (Formal)9,953Portuguese (Portugal)5,491

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Description

Child Themes are used to avoid overwriting your customizations. But if you preserve a file in a child theme, then you maybe preserve a security risk. After an update from the parent theme you always should check the changes and maybe add them to your child theme. This plugin helps you keeping track of these changes in the parent theme.

For full usage of the plugin your parent theme has to define the version of the template file in the header of the PHP file with an additional @version info.

For example: @version 1.0.0

If this is the case you will see a warning if the version of the parent theme file is higher than your child theme file. And you can see the differences between the parent theme file and the child theme file per wp_text_diff()-function like in revisions.

Some posts about this plugin:

These themes from Elmastudio are already using the @version info in the header:

  • Uku
  • Uku Light
  • Weta
  • Pukeko
  • Zeitreise
  • Werkstatt
  • Neubau
  • Hawea

Please spread the word and if you are a theme developer, please add this to your themes too! Thanks 🙂

Installation

  1. Upload the zip file from this plugin on your plugins page or search for Child Theme Check and install it directly from the repository
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Activate a child theme and run the child theme check from your tools menu

Frequently Asked Questions

I just get the error: Parent theme is missing version keyword.

For full usage of the plugin your parent theme has to define the version of the template file in the header of the PHP file with an additional @version info.

For example: @version 1.0.0

If this is the case you will see a warning if the version of the parent theme file is higher than your child theme file. And you can see the differences between the parent theme file and the child theme file per wp_text_diff()-function like in revisions.

Review feed

dimitris33
9/3/2016

Wow! great tool

Just found it, great tool, thanks for sharing
Li-An
9/3/2016

Great tool

I was bored to verify if my child themes were up to date and this plugin is a great tool to see in a glimps if you have to rework your child theme.
Sven Wagener
9/3/2016

Very helpful

This tool have been really helpful for me. Thanks a lot!
websupporter
9/3/2016

Does what it is supposed to

Thank you Thorsten et.al for this very useful plugin. I think it's a fantastic idea to check for a version header and this plugin is a good reminder of developing with a useful standard.

Screenshots

  1. Status View

    Status View

  2. Diff View

    Diff View

Changelog

1.0.9

  • Tested with WordPress 6.6

1.0.8

  • Upublished because of problems with SVN

1.0.7

  • Tested with WordPress 6.5

1.0.6

  • Fix CSS

1.0.5

  • Fix broken layout in WordPress 5.7 (Thanks to Torsten Bulk for the report)
  • Fix PHP warning
  • Tested up to 5.7

1.0.4

  • not released

1.0.3

  • Fix flashing of first diff view
  • More i18n improvements (Thanks @pedromendonca)
  • Tested up to 5.4

1.0.2

  • fixed some WordPress coding standards issues
  • added Github Updater Metadata
  • updated readme.txt
  • i18n improvements (Thanks @pedromendonca)
  • Tested up to 5.3

1.0.1

  • Fixed typo in German translation (Thanks @pixolin)
  • Changed text for action link on plugins page (Thanks @presskopp)
  • Tested up to 4.6.1

1.0.0

  • Initial release
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