Updating child theme manually, how?

  • I need to update my child theme and the instructions I have been given are:

    ‘open up the child theme’s file to the same of the parent theme file and then, tally the codes of child theme to the parent theme code and change’

    Can anyone supply some instructions on how to actually do this as I want to make sure I am doing it right?

    Thanks

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  • The reason to run a Child Theme is to preserve the changes you wish to make to a theme from the parent theme’s updates.

    If you copied over the whole theme as a Child Theme then the updated parent theme won’t affect anything theme-wise on your site. You might want to consider running a slimmed-down child theme in that case.

    Sometimes a theme change might deprecate or change a bit of code you might want to include in your Child Theme so it’s a good idea to look at the updated theme and compare items such as functions, CSS, and such but other than that I wouldn’t consider doing much to update a Child Theme.

    If you are running a released (published) child theme then you’ll want to follow that author’s recommendations if they should then update the child theme but I can’t remember that ever happening to any child themes I’ve adopted.

    I hope this clarifies the subject and answers your questions.

    Thread Starter JoseJimenez

    (@josejimenez)

    Hi and thanks for the reply.

    Here’s the background. I bought this theme some time ago for a client and I updated the theme for theme as and when there were new updates using a child theme to preserve any changes made. I stopped working for this client and then I started working with them again. The theme wasn’t updated for some time when I resumed working with them. When i updated the parent theme it returned an error and I cant even view the site. I was then told I need to update the child theme for the site to work as per the instructions in my first post.

    While I have some WordPress experience it is limited to basic stuff and I just need some guidance on updating it. Just wondering how I update the child theme as instructed.

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