child theme question

It’s only advised to use a Child Theme if you’re making code modifications to the theme, this ensures your custom code is preserved should you update the main theme in the future.

Child Themes provide a really quick and easy way to edit any theme, if you dont intend on making any modifications to the theme then there is no need to use a child theme at all.

You can also safely customize simple things like CSS using a plugin too.

Simple Custom CSS

Hope this helps.

Well this is the thing, I am trying to make an app using wordpress and the child theme doesn’t load correctly in the plugin that I am using to create the app. It works just fine using the original template. My hopes was to get this fixed but I am not having much luck getting the developer of the app fixing it. So I figured I would try another theme that didn’t come with WordPress install. I figured that when WordPress did an update to their cms then there is a chance that the stocked template may get updated as well and I would lose the changes I made. Is my thinking right or am I still not getting it?

Crystal,
The core wordpress engine is the CMS, but when that gets updated, the Themes do not get updated along with it. So if you build on the Twenty Fifteen theme, next time WordPress updates you would still run your site on the same Theme.
Sometimes (separately from the WordPress core updates) Themes are also updated by the people who create them. At that point you can decide if you need to update the theme or not.
Of course the Themes run on WordPress, so if you are going to update the core CMS, then you probably want to keep your Themes up to date as well, or you might run into some compatibility issues.
A child theme will not work in the absence of it’s parent theme. The child theme is just a collection of modifications to the parent theme that are managed separately so that you don’t have to tinker with the core theme itself.
I hope this helps.

Ok great! That answers my question. I thought that when I updated my wordpress that the twenty fourteen template would get updated along with it. So that eases my mind that it won’t. Thank you for all the good information!