Best soloution for my theme?

  • I’m pretty new to WordPress and I downloaded the newswire theme, I have done some editing in the files but I read that this not good and should of made a child theme just in case of updates.

    Is there away to not accept theme updates or are they forced? is it best to make a child theme? and if so what is the easiest method do It while keeping all my current settings

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  • jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    it is best to make a child theme for all reasons! you can ignore theme updates but as the core of wordpress updates you might find that your theme starts to misbehave as it’s no longer compatible with the wordpress core version.

    the simple solution to all of this is to create yourself a child theme. you’ll thank yourself in the long run ??

    Thread Starter iiievi

    (@iiievi)

    what is the easiest method of doing this while keeping all my current changes?

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    the simplest solution would be to create a child theme and then just copy and paste over the code from the parent theme’s style.css into your child theme’s style.css

    however, if you can remember all of the classes and id’s that you’ve tweaked then you can just add those into the child theme style.css file and the overrides will take effect. (if you’re not sure which things you’ve tweaked, get a fresh copy of the theme and do a side by side comparison with an unedited version of the style.css file and your edited version to see what you’ve tweaked, then copy them out to the child theme’s style.css

    i hope that makes sense! ??

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