Can ALL parent files be copied over to a Child Theme?

  • I made a rookie error when I set up my first WordPress site a year ago. I had never heard of Child themes and so I made design changes within the parent theme files. It was so long ago I don’t even remember which files I changed. I now have 17 updates pending and I’ve had to ignore them because obviously all my changes will be lost. It’s been fine up to this point, but now I see strange things happening to my text-wrapping and I’m assuming its related to the need-for-updates.

    My question is – can I copy over the entire directory and rename it as a child? I know it’s recommended that only the changed files fall under the child theme but I really don’t want to have to go through every line of code on every page to see where and what I changed last year.

    How would plugins work in the above scenario?
    Can I leave the altered files in the Parent Theme or should I install a new ‘clean’ version from scratch?

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