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Nijad Kifayeh
6,092 PointsChanges to parent theme that can be over-ridden w/ theme update
I'm not 100% clear on which changes to a parent theme will be over-ridden once a theme is updated?
Will any content added to the site be reset as well (blogs etc.) ?
1 Answer
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsHi Nijad,
Your content shouldn't be overridden on a parent theme. It's mainly core functionality.
If you're looking to customise an existing theme the best way to approach this would be via a child theme. With a child theme you can essentially copy the look of an existing theme without affecting the original.
Hope that helps :)
-Rich
Nijad Kifayeh
6,092 PointsNijad Kifayeh
6,092 PointsHi Rich! Thanks for addressing so many of my recent questions!
I am currently setting up an e-commerce site based on wordpress where I am using the woo commerce plugin, the canvas framework and a canvas child theme; from my research it seems that it is not possible to have a child of a child theme....is that accurate?
My worry is that any customizations I make to the child theme (structural and typographical) will be "reset" if the child theme creator updates the child theme ...
while we're at it, the canvas child theme I bought does not utilize the usual parentThemeName-child naming syntax nor does it include the metadata in the child css as per the instructions for creating a child-theme in the codex.....what is gong on there?
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsRich Bagley
25,869 PointsHi Nijad,
No problem! A child theme can be named anything and doesn't have to keep to the parentThemeName-child syntax. It will be referenced in the style.css anyway.
It's not standard to have a child of a child theme but the theme may have been set up in a different way so In terms of that the best way of resolving this would be checking with the theme developer.
Hope that helps :)
-Rich