WARNING: destroys already customized parent theme

WARNING: DO NOT USE THIS PLUG-IN ON A THEME YOU’VE ALREADY CUSTOMIZED

This plug-in destroys all customizations that you’ve made to the parent theme in your WordPress Admin site. It modifies entries in the WordPress SQL database so that your parent theme will be reset and your web site will look like it did when you first installed that theme–whether you apply the parent or child theme. In other words, you will lose all your content.

So don’t use this plug-in unless the parent theme is virgin or you don’t care about it’s content. I lost months of content in my parent theme when I ran this plug-in. While the plug-in doesn’t overwrite files in the parent’s directory, e.g. style.css, it does kill database entries that contain file pointers, text content, etc. If you didn’t make an SQL backup, you’re out of luck even when trying to salvage your parent with myPHPAdmin.

I recommend creating a child theme manually. There are many tutorials that describe this simple process in sufficient detail.

-Erik