The Salient Child Theme is a lightweight, customizable companion to the Salient WordPress theme. It safeguards your tweaks during updates, lets you add custom code safely, and keeps your site fast and secure. Perfect for designers, agencies, and creators who want a clean, scalable, and SEO-friendly workflow.
- Preserves customizations during theme updates
- Safe space for custom CSS, JS, and PHP
- Optimized for the Salient theme and Nectar framework
- Clean, organized file structure for easy development
- SEO-friendly foundation with no bloat
- Supports modern hooks, filters, and templates
- Compatible with Salient demos and page builder
- Fast performance with minimal overhead
- Ready for custom post types and taxonomies
- Fully translatable and localization-ready
- Works with popular plugins (WooCommerce, Yoast, etc.)
- Version-controlled development workflow friendly
- Secure, update-safe custom functions in functions.php
- Easily override Salient templates and partials
- Developer-friendly with enqueue best practices