Child Theme

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    If you’re making CSS changes it’ll just be a folder that contains a ‘style.css’ file, and in that style.css file will be your changes.

    Also the child theme folder can contain functions.php for extra functions, such as any custom shortcode code.

    The benefit of a child theme is that any parent theme updates will not overwrite your custom css and custom functions.

    More reading here.

    All Child themes do is allow you to add extra customization onto an existing theme – that theme would be known as your Parent theme. You can place css code in a child theme and you can manipulate other files as well to add all of the desired customization.

    The reason you’d want to use a child theme is so that when the time comes to update (and it will come) your main (or parent) theme – you won’t lose any of the customization.

    Follow the link that lorro posted to see WordPress’ description and details.

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