is a child theme necessary?

  • Resolved ksio

    (@ksio)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I am very new to wordpress and have attempted (many times, unsuccessfully!) to create a child theme for this theme to modify a couple of things.

    Is it necessary to create a child theme at all?

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  • If you want to make changes to theme files and not lose them when the theme is updated, yes.

    Thread Starter ksio

    (@ksio)

    Ok thanks, I thought so but I am having no luck with creating a child theme so I was hoping I could get away without it…

    I am following instructions on a couple of blogs and creating a new directory and then creating a new style.css file which contains this:

    /*
    Theme Name: Emphaino-child
    Description: A Child Theme of Emphaino
    Template: emphaino
    */
    @import url(../emphaino/style.css);

    When I activate the child theme what I get is not at all like the parent theme, I have some of my posts and pages but the layout, colours etc is completely wrong.

    Any idea what I am doing wrong?

    Can you post a link to your site?

    Thread Starter ksio

    (@ksio)

    Because I’m so new to this I am trying it out locally on my computer…

    Thread Starter ksio

    (@ksio)

    Figured it out – I had somehow altered the .css of the parent theme so once I re-installed that is all good again. Thanks.

    Cool…sometimes you just need to ask here and then you magically solve it yourself :)!

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