Changing parent themes with existing Child theme

  • This seems like a legit question, but I can’t find anything by googling. I currently am using a theme that has minimal customization ability and have already built my child theme. So I want to switch the parent theme. What are the steps to doing that? do I just change my style.css in my child theme? I was thinking I might change the @import or theme name in my style.css but am not exactly sure. It seems like it is the only thing I need to change, but just want to verify. A little confused and surprised this has not been asked.

    Thanks for any explanations

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  • Bill

    (@chubbycrow)

    A child theme is specific to the parent, so you’d be best off by creating a new child theme for whatever parent you choose to use. It’s unlikely that each parent theme will have the same specificity of selectors or even the same classes in their style sheets. You’ll probably find that easier than trying to adapt the old child to the new parent, though you can certainly copy over anything that makes sense to reuse.

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