I directly edited the WP 2010 Theme: can I convert to child theme?

  • Resolved jessica_a

    (@jessica_a)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, I’m an idiot.

    I tend to learn by doing, so in getting acquainted with WordPress i just sort of jumped in and mucked around with my theme (2010). I used code I found around here and other places to modify the CSS quite a bit, but also some PHP function stuff (removed dates from posts, for one. And a few other things I don’t even remember…). And THEN I read about child themes. Oops.

    I don’t really know what I’m doing (obviously), and I have a rudimentary understanding of all this, so if someone could, in a nice way, tell me exactly how screwed I am, and what if anything I can do to fix this, I would be much obliged. Thank you!

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  • If you don’t remember exactly what you changed, you should copy the entire stylesheet you edited into notepad, save it, and then reinstall a fresh version of your theme. Then you can create a child theme and paste your edited stylesheet (or just the parts that have been changed) into the child theme style.css file in the editor.

    Thread Starter jessica_a

    (@jessica_a)

    Got it, OK, that’s not too bad. And if I made changes to other pieces besides the stylesheet (I know I took out timestamp-related things from at least one php file) I should just suck it up and redo them once I’ve created the child theme?

    (thank you, btw)

    Yeah, it’s not that bad.
    I’m not 100% on this, but I think that if you made other changes in the editor section (in like header.php, sidebar.php, etc) those will still be implemented once you activate your child theme. You don’t have to make those changes directly to the stylesheet. I could be wrong, but I think I remember doing this.

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