Child Theme Best Practice

  • When I create a child theme of TwentyTwelve and I find that I need to modify files in the category.php and content.php I’m currently copying the entire file into my child theme directory and making the mods there.

    Is there a better way to do it rather than copying ALL the contents of each file. I’m concerned that when the theme gets upgraded I’m going have problems if category.php and content.php are changed in the upgrade.

    For example – can I create a category.php in the child’s theme and only put the lines of code I need to change in it and then comment them out?

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  • Unfortunately, no, you can’t do that. You would need to put a complete category.php in your child theme. When/If Twenty Twelve gets updated in the future, it won’t matter what happens to the category.php in the parent theme because WordPress will only ever use the category.php in the child theme.

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