VTRKS Child Theme Starter

VTRKS Child is a lightweight starter child theme designed for easy customization of your WordPress site with your own CSS and JavaScript.
Fully compatible with popular page builders like Beaver Builder and Elementor, it provides a clean foundation for building upon the VTRKS parent theme.

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Benefits of Using VTRKS Child

• Lightweight and Minimal: Includes only essential files to keep it simple and fast.
• Easy Customization: Add your own CSS and JavaScript without modifying the parent theme.
• Page Builder Compatibility: Works seamlessly with Beaver Builder and Elementor for drag-and-drop editing.
• Safe Updates: Keeps your customizations separate from the parent theme so you can update without losing changes.

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Prerequisites

Before using this child theme, ensure you have:

• The Beaver Builder Theme or Hello Elementor installed and activated.
• WordPress (latest stable version) installed on your site.
• A page builder plugin if you intend to use Beaver Builder or Elementor.

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Getting Started

Installing the Child Theme

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Upload the vtrks-child folder to your WordPress /wp-content/themes/ directory.
3. In your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Appearance > Themes.
4. Activate the VTRKS Child theme.

Customizing the Child Theme

• Styles: Add your CSS or SCSS customizations to style.css.
• JavaScript: Add custom scripts in js/custom.js (or create your own files and enqueue them).
• Functions: Use functions.php to enqueue your styles/scripts and add custom PHP tweaks.

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Development Workflow

Since this is a starter child theme, development is straightforward:

• Make all your design and functionality changes inside the child theme to preserve updates to the parent theme.
• Use your preferred code editor and local WordPress environment.
• Leverage page builders for layout without touching the code if preferred.

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Commands

This child theme uses npm scripts to compile SCSS and JavaScript assets.

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. Compile assets once:

npm run build

3. Start the watch mode to auto-compile on file changes during development:

npm run build:watch

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Support

If you need help or want to report issues, please open a GitHub issue or email me at [email protected].

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Author

• @JoshuaDavids

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License

This child theme is released under the GPLv3 License.