Creating a Child Theme for Already Edited Theme

  • Hey,

    My theme needs and update and I found out that it’s not wise to update that without having an Child Theme for it.

    The problem is that I’ve already edited the whole theme and made the website – When creating a Child Theme using a plugin it’s the theme that I started from. Meaning I should build the whole website again.

    Any help on how I could create a Child Theme when I’ve already built the website.

    Website I need help with:

    https://scconsulting.co/

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  • Ya – that’s definitely an issue.

    What theme have you used?

    I would strongly recommend not leaving it this way.

    Chalk it up as a learning lesson, create a staging site of your current website. Create a Child Theme and redo everything you have already done in your Parent theme into your Child theme. There’s really no other way around it. The Parent theme may retain all the Configuration you have already set in the Theme (hopefully), and then it will only be any customizations in the functions file, or in the Additional CSS.

    But ya, this is a necessary step in your project imo.

    Thread Starter jantsa1313

    (@jantsa1313)

    Yeah at least learned something.

    Can I edit the Child Theme without activating it? Because the website is already published and it’s my client’s page.

    You can edit the Child Theme without it being active. But, I do not recommend.

    The right way to approach this is to create a staging site of your production site:

    https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/wordpress-staging-environment

    Make all your updates to the staging site, etc, etc and have the client validate the staging site. Then once you are done, either convert the staging over to production if Hostzinger provides these migration tools in their GUI, or you could just migrate one over the other using a tool like All In One Migration.

    Highly recommend doing it properly.

    Thread Starter jantsa1313

    (@jantsa1313)

    Just to be clear to not mess anything up:

    1. I will create a Staging for my website from Hostinger
    2. Then I’ll start to edit the staging website
    3. There I will activate and create the child theme and make the website again
    4. When I’ve done that, I can publish the staged website from Hostinger and then that’s done

    All correct.

    Except I do not know if Hostzinger provides the functionality for like a “one-click move from Staging to Production” or not. Ask them.

    Thread Starter jantsa1313

    (@jantsa1313)

    Thank you for the help, I’ll ask Hostinger

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