Parent theme vs Child theme

  • Hello,

    A former developer I worked with on the past made customizations on child theme, but some of the code was placed on functions.php parent theme, he then placed all his code back on child theme, now a recent parent theme update destroyed all modifications from parent theme functions.php file.

    he says it not possible to overwrite his customizations on child theme alone, since they are beyond styles. I read on wordpress documentation that when extensive customizations – beyond styles and a few theme files are made, it is a better option than a child theme to create a parent theme in order to avoid the kind of issues I am facing.

    My question:

    a. is it possible in your experience that a child theme cannot overwrite certain functionalities from parent theme and if that is the case, there is nothing to do about that ?

    b.as an alternative one could write code on parent theme and risk losing it all when update comes around.

    c. it′s always possible to overwrite any functionality using child theme no matter how extensive customizations are.

    I would appreciate your insights,
    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by globsticks.
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  • Hello,

    in some cases, child theme can not overwrite certain functionalities from parent theme,in that case we make changes in parent theme and after changes, create backup of changes,so when parent theme update our code lost but we can idea what changes we required for particular functionality.

    i think it will help you

    Thanks

    Thread Starter globsticks

    (@globsticks)

    Thank you Aims Infosoft !

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