creating child theme after numerous edits

  • I am new to wordpress and jumped right in to making changes to style.css in the parent theme. I have made many changes but do not recall all of them. Can I just copy all of style.css from my parent theme to a child theme to ensure that all of them make it over? I have seen that everyone suggests using the @import instead of doing it this way, but that would cost me hours of trying to find every little edit I have done.

    Will it cause any problems with the sites performance to just copy all of style.css from the parent theme?

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  • Yes, you can copy the entire file — though it makes it harder to see what’s what in your code, and what you have changed. And yes, duplicate CSS code can slow things down, though probably not that much, if any.

    Another possible way to deal with this is to open the modified file and an unchanged version in a text editor – and use the compare function to find any changes.

    Thread Starter clwendt88

    (@clwendt88)

    Thank you for the help!

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