Child Theme Customization

  • It appears to me that the child theme has a fundamental problem. I have worked on a site and set all the customization settings. Then a problem came up that would require a child theme. The child theme is supposed to let you modify the parent theme without having to change everything. The flaw is that WP does not lookup the customization that is associated with the parent theme. If WP can access all the files of the parent theme why can’t it also access the parent themes customization settings?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    That’s a function of your theme; it probably stores theme options (set from it’s own checkboxes, etc.) in the database under the theme name. So, when you switch to a child theme, that’s a different theme. See if it has an option to export settings. If so, you can probably export settings while the parent is active, then import those settings after activating the child.

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