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Easy-Peasy Child Theme Setup
Easy-Peasy Child Theme Setup
You should always convert your new WordPress site - using ANY theme- into a Child Theme before further customizing or doing ANYTHING to your site.
Particularly if you don’t want all of your hard work to disappear without a trace one day when you receive an unexpected update from WordPress, I HIGHLY recommend that you first convert your site into a Child Theme.
Here are the Lesson Topics we will be covering in this tutorial:
Introduction: What is a Child Theme? (Page 1)
Your Quick Setup: Preliminary Updates (Page 1, Images 1-5)
Lesson 1: Installing the Child Theme Configurator Plugin(Page 2, Images 6-9)
Lesson 2: Analyze and Name Child Theme (Page 3, Images 10-14)
Lesson 3: Copy Parent and Create Child Theme (Page 4, Images 15-16)
Lesson 4: Preview, Activate, and Publish Child Theme (Page 5, Images 17-18)
Lesson 5: Review and Deactivate Child Theme (Page 6, Images 19-20)
What is a Child Theme?
A child theme is an exact copy of your parent theme site. In other words, if you set the child theme up without adding any code, the site with the child theme would be EXACTLY the same as the parent theme.
The main advantage of a child theme is that the code is separate from the parent theme, which means that the parent theme can be updated at any time without losing any changes that you've made.
Thus a child theme inherits all the attributes and functions of the parent theme, while protecting all of your customizations from being overwritten when the parent theme is updated. You can continue to update the parent theme as updates are released safe in the knowledge that your child theme will remain unchanged by the updates.
Your Quick Setup: Preliminary Updates (Optional)
*Note: ONLY complete Steps 1-5 if your WordPress version and Theme is NOT up-to-date. Steps 1-5 can also be completed at the END of this tutorial.
Today we will create an “Easy-Peasy” child theme setup using the plugin Child theme Configurator.
I will be using my own test site kajukajukaju.siterubix.com to conduct this demonstration.
1. Login to your website in your WordPress Dashboard
(I assume you know how!)
2. Go to Appearance > Themes. Click Top Please update now to update to your dashboard to the latest version of WordPress. In this case it’s the current WordPress 4.9.6.
3. Click Update Now in your Theme box (i.e. i-Design) to update the Parent theme
4. Your Parent theme is now updated
5. As you can see in your Theme page, your Child Theme is now active as denoted by Active: i-Design
Now we move on to the “meat” of this tutorial, where we will be installing the Child Theme Configurator, here is what you will need to do.
When you are ready, click “Next Page” to Lesson 1
You can go to bed now Carol I will make sure that Kaju doesn't get lonely when you're not here lol. xxx
Nighty Nite and sweet dreams friend. xxx
(Sorry I know I'm a little late with this comment:))!
Is he giving you his clown juice in secret by any chance.
I am just wondering with the amount of laughter that has gone between you both lol.
Can't behave yourselves when I'm not here, tut tut tut.
Hope you are not giving my big Sis your clown juice on the sly lol. xxxx
I will take it that it is a yes then lol. xxxx
Once the child theme is published, the parent theme will automatically become inactive; the child theme replaces it.
However, you can re-activate the Parent theme anytime in your Themes page. But why would you want to?
The Child theme has your back!
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If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
The BEST thing you can do is just create a child theme, then study it with the reading material. Things will make sense.
Let me know if I can be of further assistance, my friend.
Kaju
No. When I want to make any changes or add content, for now and in the future all changes will be made to the Child Theme.
The child theme is meant as a carbon copy to replace the parent theme if the parent theme gets damaged or loses info, so when Wordpress updates (as oftem happens) or you ever updated the Parent, only the Parent Theme is in harms way of losing information. i.e. graphics, text, etc.. NOT the Child Theme.
Hence, that is how having a Child Theme now is protecting you.
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