Lesson 5: Review and Deactivate Child Theme


Lesson 5: Review and Deactivate Child Theme


19. After you've activated and Published your Child Theme, go back to your WP Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and review it. You'll see your new Child Theme NEXT AND TO THE LEFT of the original Parent Theme. Everything you do from now on will be in the Child Theme.


*Note: In Appearance >Themes, your Theme page will display both Child Theme and the Parent Theme with a generic image of the theme, NOT your Home Page image. Go to Appearance > Customize” on the Left Column of your dashboard, and your Home Page image will appear.


20. After you've published your child theme, Click Deactivate. This will deactivate the Child Theme Configurator plugin so that it doesn't negatively affect your page load speed.



Congratulations! You have now created your first Child Theme! Now whenever you make further changes to your site, you rest assured that you will NEVER lose any of your hard-earned work due to WordPress updates.

Please feel free to COMMENT and LIKE this training, I won’t mind it!


Cheers,

Kaju

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Happy2Learn Premium
Outstanding work Kaju. This will help a lot of people
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Happy2Learn
Really so happy to hear, Happy. This means alot to me coming from you. Thank You!!
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Sammy-B Premium
Great training Kaju, have bookmarked it for later! Just one question - if I create a child theme for an established site, will the parent theme automatically become inactive once the child theme is published or do I have to deactivate it manually?
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Sammy-B
Hey Sammy, great question!
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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Sammy-B Premium
@jetrbby80316
Brilliant, thanks Kaju!
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GauravGaur Premium
@jetrbby80316
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?
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@GauravGaur
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.
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Sammy-B
Hi Sammy its been a long time I hope you are well:)! 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:)

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Loes Premium
Oops, I believe I don't use a child theme yet, thanks, I can understand this training very well
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Chezbrown Premium
@Loes
I am very surprised at that Loes. xxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Loes
Yes Loes, you won't need this. This was requested from some of the newbies, and initially inspired by a PM conversation I had with a well-known member here who wasn't familiar with child themes.
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Loes Premium
@jetrbby80316
Won't? I believe I do need to create pne
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Loes Premium
@Chezbrown
Haha, I am not perfect
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Loes
Lol!
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Chezbrown Premium
@Loes
I thought you would have had that covered a long time ago lol. xxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Loes doesn't need this training, she is so beyond this her sites are bullet-proof!
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
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
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Loes Premium
@Chezbrown
First I have procrastinated it, then I forgot all about it, until now
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Chezbrown Premium
@Loes
You are ok Loes, we can all do things like this. But now you can set it straight. xxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Loes
I have the just the remedy fr your procrastination Loes:
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Loes is just being modest, Period :)
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Does that mean she likes my training?
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
I would take that as a yes I think lol. xxxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
:):):)
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GauravGaur Premium
@Loes
Now I have one more reason to procrastinate.....just joking, Loes.
I am serious to apply it.
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Loes Premium
@GauravGaur
I will, this weekend, I promise you
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@GauravGaur
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
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Loes
Glad to hear Loes!
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Loes Premium
@GauravGaur
I kept my promise, I have installed a child theme, have you?
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Loes
C'mon Loes has done it, so can YOU!
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
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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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
I was talking to Loes and Gaurav, you told me that already!
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
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
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Hahaha! Hitting the juice again, aye?
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
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
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Yes, it certainly would appear that way :)
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kimgwinter Premium
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?
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@kimgwinter
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.
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kimgwinter Premium
@jetrbby80316
Ok, got it, makes perfect sense. Thanks so much for your help Kaju, I appreciate it.
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@kimgwinter
Always a pleasure, Kim!
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@kimgwinter
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:)

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If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@kimgwinter
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:)

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If you don't yet, I will happily return the favor when yours is up.:)
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Chezbrown Premium
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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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Never thought of that, if I had 8 test sites that would be 24 Kaju's!
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
imagine typing that websites name lol. You would be punch drunk trying to make sure you had enough Kaju's lol. xxxx
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Enough...clown juice??!!
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Chezbrown Premium
@jetrbby80316
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
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jetrbby80316 Premium
@Chezbrown
Very true, C.
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