What is the Difference between Parent Theme and Child Theme?
A parent theme refers to a complete theme including all required WordPress template files.
Meanwhile, a child theme inherits the core features and look of the parent theme but lets developers modify it without altering the parent theme.
WordPress theme developers will tell you if a theme is a child theme in the description and label it “This is a child theme of X” in the sidebar, like in the example below.
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