Midnight Child Theme is a lightweight, developer-friendly child theme designed to extend the Midnight (or any parent) WordPress theme safely. It preserves customizations during updates, boosts performance, and offers clean structure for designers, agencies, and site owners who want a fast, secure, and SEO-ready foundation without bloat.
- Safe customization that survives parent theme updates
- Zero-bloat, performance-first architecture
- Clean, well-commented code for easy edits
- Full support for WordPress child theme standards
- Optimized for Core Web Vitals and fast load times
- SEO-friendly structure and schema-ready markup
- Compatible with block editor (Gutenberg) and classic editor
- Supports custom templates, hooks, and filters
- Easy style overrides via style.css and SCSS-ready workflow
- Modular functions.php for safe feature additions
- Works with popular builders (Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi)
- WooCommerce-ready styling and template overrides
- RTL and translation-ready (WPML/Polylang compatible)
- Accessible, responsive design patterns included
- Granular enqueue control for scripts and styles
- Version-controlled assets for reliable deployments
- Developer docs and clear file structure for rapid onboarding