Overriding Parent Theme

  • When I develop a child theme, do I copy everything from parent to child and then modify there; I realize that the style.css for the child theme overrides the parent. However, let’s say I wanted to get rid of categories, archives, etc in the parent, would I do that by copying the files from parent, and then do the modifications, or just simply adding stuff in the child theme file?

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    A child theme could be just the one file style.css, and a screenshot.

    If you wanted to then hide the blog title and description, adjust the colors or margins, you can do it in the childs style.css

    If you say wanted to remove the comments from the blogs list pages, you would copy loop.php from the parent to the child, re-name it as loop-index.php and make your changes.

    If you wanted no page titles then you would copy page.php to the child and edit the file there.

    Dont like the change just remove the changed file from the child theme.

    HTH

    David

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