Wordpress Tip Of The Day - Child Themes
Hi All
Today's WordPress tip is using themes with child themes
Some themes come with child and framework files, the theme you can see is a studio press paid theme, which comes with a frame work and child theme
To explain what these themes are, the best way I can describe it is like a car, the framework is the engine and the child theme is the spray paint, these themes are used in order to add additional functionality to the theme, they also have the benefit of saving your work when you change the theme the framework saves all the work so if you break or mess up the child part of the theme, the framework is in the background to keep all the work you have created
How to upload and activate the framework and child theme
Step 1
upload the framework file and do not click activate
Step 2
Upload the child theme, then click activate
The framework file is the right hand part and the child theme is the left one
That's all there is to it, so now if you need to upload a theme with a framework and child part you now know how to do it
Barry
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I'm still trying to get child themes into my head. A new update came out on my theme and I downloaded that update but I don't like it as much as the original. I was thinking that something wouldn't work right if I kept avoiding the updates though. Would a child theme have helped?
I really would like to ask a couple questions, but since I am not using a child theme...I will pass on it...so as to not give me more things to think about...Lol..Thanks for sharing Barry. :))
Terry661. Good question. So if we make changes to the child theme and then we want to go back to the framework theme, are the changes we made to the chile theme reflected in the framework theme? Or Do we just go to appearances>themes and select the framework theme and we basically start from scratch again?
You really don't need to touch the framework theme
You can use the framework theme as a theme by it self but its not recommended
If you have both themes installed then you want to use a different theme then just activate a new theme
Its best to build a site using both the framework and the child theme
Barry
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Having a little trouble getting my brain around this one, but it's a concern because my current theme (I've changed it for this niche 2 times already) has the Child Theme capability.
I thought that backing up my site before a theme update protected me from the unintended consequences of an update. Apparently not.
Oh well ... just another bump in this steep learning curve.