Lesson 4: Preview, Activate, and Publish Child Theme
Lesson 4: Preview, Activate, and Publish Child Theme
17. Now back in the Dashboard, Click Preview the New child theme.
18. Verify that the previewing theme is of the form [your-theme-name-child]. It will open in your Customizer and look like this. Here it is kajukajukaju Child.
It looks good!
Click Activate & Publish.
The LAST step is we must REVIEW our work to verify our Child Theme was activated and published to satisfaction. And that the CHILD THEME (Clone) and PARENT THEME (Original) co-exist on the same page in Appearance > Themes.
When you are ready, click “Next Page” to Lesson 5
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jetrbby80316
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Really so happy to hear, Happy. This means alot to me coming from you. Thank You!!
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GauravGaur
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That Means, I have to work for new posts/blogs on Child Theme only and let the Main Theme be INACTIVE forever, am I Correct?
jetrbby80316
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Or inactive as long as you want it to, Gaurav. You can re-activate the main theme anytime, but that only will put your site back in harm's way.
jetrbby80316
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jetrbby80316
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Loes doesn't need this training, she is so beyond this her sites are bullet-proof!
Chezbrown
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Well you know that's what I would have thought too and that was why I was surprised when she said she needed one. xxx
Loes
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jetrbby80316
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GauravGaur
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jetrbby80316
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Hope you can apply this better now Gaurav, Read my answer to Mary's question in detail and that should clear much 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
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
Chezbrown
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I already told you I have child themes for both my sites that I set up ages and ages ago lol. xxx
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Chezbrown
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Can I just say that I must have been seeing things as I could have swore that my name was there and that's why I replied to you. xxx
Chezbrown
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I was just having a wee try to make sure it was ok before I sent it onto you lol. Must have had more than I thought hahaha. xxx
kimgwinter
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Great training, thank you Kaju! I've set up my child theme and it all worked perfectly. So just to clarify, when I want to make any changes or add content, I do that in my parent theme. Will those changes copy over to my child theme when I activate my child theme? Is the child theme meant as a carbon copy to replace the parent theme if the parent theme gets damaged or loses info?
jetrbby80316
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Wonderful Kim, glad this was helpful!
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.
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.
kimgwinter
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Ok, got it, makes perfect sense. Thanks so much for your help Kaju, I appreciate it.
jetrbby80316
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Thanks again Kim:)! Here's a great Tokyo story for you on my new YT channel:) Send me your YT link and I will Subscribe. You can Subscribe to my channel here:)
http://bit.ly/2T21P2N
If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
http://bit.ly/2T21P2N
If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
jetrbby80316
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Thanks so much again Kim:) I have a new You Tube channel where I'm producing great content.
Check out our great Tokyo story as well as my Efren Reyes match win video play by play:)
Send me your YT link and I will Subscribe. You can Subscribe to my channel here:)
http://bit.ly/2T21P2N
If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
Check out our great Tokyo story as well as my Efren Reyes match win video play by play:)
Send me your YT link and I will Subscribe. You can Subscribe to my channel here:)
http://bit.ly/2T21P2N
If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
Chezbrown
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Couldn't you spell your name or something this morning that you had to type it all those times for your test site OR do you start your first test site with just Kaju.siterubix.com and then for each test site you just add another Kaju on to the name lol. Not sure I would like to see it if you had 7 or 8 test sites lol. xxxx
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Chezbrown
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imagine typing that websites name lol. You would be punch drunk trying to make sure you had enough Kaju's lol. xxxx
Chezbrown
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Na can't do it with clown juice as you would start omitting letters and then it wouldn't make any sense at all then would it lol. xxx
