Title: Child Theme Check
Author: Torsten Landsiedel
Published: <strong>26 de Setembro de 2015</strong>
Last modified: 31 de Maio de 2026

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# Child Theme Check

 Por [Torsten Landsiedel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zodiac1978/)

[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/child-theme-check.1.0.10.zip)

 * [Detalles](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/#description)
 * [Valoracións](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/#reviews)
 *  [Instalación](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/#installation)
 * [Desenvolvemento](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/#developers)

 [Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/)

## Descrición

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:

 * [KrautPress](https://krautpress.de/2016/child-theme-dilemma/) (German)
 * [WP Tavern](https://wptavern.com/child-theme-check-plugin-helps-wordpress-users-navigate-parent-theme-updates)(
   English)
 * [Elmastudio](http://www.elmastudio.de/en/wordpress-plugins-child-theme-check/)(
   English)
 * [Elmastudio](http://www.elmastudio.de/wordpress-plugin-tipp-child-theme-check/)(
   German)

These themes from [Elmastudio](http://www.elmastudio.de/en/) 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 🙂

## Capturas

[⌊Status View⌉⌊Status View⌉[

Status View

[⌊Diff View⌉⌊Diff View⌉[

Diff View

## Instalación

 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

## Preguntas frecuentes

### 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.

## Comentarios

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0b1a564da33d5dacc0dde7ff55fe7ff70c50210ca3c9b02f167f27cd912e1963?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Diff is Legit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diff-is-legit/)󠁿

 [exius](https://profiles.wordpress.org/exius/) 2 de Xullo de 2020

Diff works as advertised. It highlights changes to lines of code inside my child-
theme files as compared to the parent theme files. Since I'm using a premium theme,
I don't have control over how the theme is written, so the @version detection feature
will doubtfully be useful in this case since the parent theme isn't using that on
top of all their pages. They are however using the @since tag for almost every function.
That seems complicated to track. Diff is already highlighting the differences between
lines of code, so @since might not be too useful either.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-tool-58/)󠁿

 [John](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dsl225/) 13 de Setembro de 2016

Very useful and works just fine. Many thanks for your work!

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### 󠀁[Very helpful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-helpful-292/)󠁿

 [Sven Wagener](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mahype/) 3 de Setembro de 2016

This tool have been really helpful for me. Thanks a lot!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-tool-403/)󠁿

 [Li-An](https://profiles.wordpress.org/li-an/) 3 de Setembro de 2016

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.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Does what it is supposed to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-what-it-is-supposed-to-6/)󠁿

 [websupporter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/websupporter/) 3 de Setembro de 2016

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.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Wow! great tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wow-great-tool/)󠁿

 [dimitris33](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimitris33/) 3 de Setembro de 2016

Just found it, great tool, thanks for sharing

 [ Ler todas as 8 opinións ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/)

## Colaboradores e desenvolvedores

“Child Theme Check” é un software de código aberto. As seguintes persoas colaboraron
con este plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ Torsten Landsiedel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zodiac1978/)
 *   [ Drivingralle ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/drivingralle/)
 *   [ Frank Neumann-Staude ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fstaude/)
 *   [ Hinnerk Altenburg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hinnerk/)

“Child Theme Check” foi traducido a 4 idiomas. Grazas [aos desenvolvedores](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-theme-check/contributors)
polas súas contribucións.

[Traduce “Child Theme Check” ao teu idioma.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-theme-check)

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## Rexistro de cambios

#### 1.0.10

 * Tested with WordPress 7.0
 * Adding PHPStan to project
 * Fix errors reported by PHPStan and Plugin Check
 * General code maintenance

#### 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

## Meta

 *  Versión **1.0.10**
 *  Última actualización **Fai 4 meses**
 *  Instalacións activas **800+**
 *  Versión de WordPress ** 3.6.0 ou superior **
 *  Probado ata **7.0.7**
 *  Idiomas
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/),
   [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/),
   e [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/).
 *  [Traduce ao teu idioma](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/child-theme-check)
 * Etiquetas
 * [check](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/check/)[child](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/child/)
   [child theme](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/child-theme/)[theme](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/theme/)
 *  [Vista avanzada](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/advanced/)

## Valoracións

 5 de 5 estrelas

 *  [  8 valoracións de 5 estrelas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 valoracións de 4 estrelas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 valoracións de 3 estrelas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 valoracións de 2 estrelas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 valoracións de 1 estrelas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/child-theme-check/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Colaboradores

 *   [ Torsten Landsiedel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zodiac1978/)
 *   [ Drivingralle ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/drivingralle/)
 *   [ Frank Neumann-Staude ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fstaude/)
 *   [ Hinnerk Altenburg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hinnerk/)

## Soporte

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