Add child theme capability to a theme that does not provide for it?

  • Resolved micmko

    (@micmko)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    I have a client that is using a theme that does not support child themes. I have confirmed this with the developer. Is there any way in which to add that capability to a theme that does not support child themes? If not, is there a best approach to minimize pain and suffering when the theme or WordPress is updated?
    TIA

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  • What theme are you using? Where did you download it from? WordPress core updates will not touch your 3rd party theme.

    Thread Starter micmko

    (@micmko)

    Thanks esmi,

    I’m using “Nemesis” from themeforest. The developer had to provided an upgrade to support wp 3.5. many users of the theme were experiencing odd behavior.

    I’m sorry – we do not support commercial themes here but in general terms, making a theme child-theme friendly could mean re-writing the whole theme. Certainly not a small undertaking.

    Thread Starter micmko

    (@micmko)

    OK thanks. I’m not capable of re-writing the whole theme.

    Is there though, a best practice approach to minimizing the ordeal of having to re-customize these type of themes every time the developer releases a update?

    Thanks again.

    I’m afraid that the best practice approach is to chose themes that are child friendly and then create a suitable child theme. If your changes are restricted to CSS, then you could look at installing a Custom Css plugin but that’s about it, unfortunately.

    Thread Starter micmko

    (@micmko)

    Yeah, I was afraid that, that might be it. Thanks again. :/

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