Can I create a child theme after adding content to a theme

  • Hi,
    I have started a new site with the theme Spacious from the theme store.

    I read yesterday that it would be good practice to create a child theme of Spacious. So far I haven’t made many changes.

    I have created several pages. Will a new theme remove all of them?
    Can I save them and import them before I create new child theme?

    As a side note:
    The theme I have chosen said I can only use 5 plugins. Is this standard practice? Is there a way I could override this? I am concerned the site I am trying to create is going to require many more than 5.

    Thank you all for reading this
    I look forward to hearing your responses.

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  • Hi,

    Content and themes are separate. Thats the whole point in themes really. You can change your “look” easily and keep the content.

    Id say any theme that restricts how many plugins you can use is absolute pants and shouldnt be used. Im pretty sure it will be some crappy function hidden in the functions.php or similar which you can simply remove and it will allow you to add more plugins.

    Im guessing there is a pro version that allows more plugins to be used. Ive actually never heard of this before. Its really bad if true.

    Regarding child themes; well it really depends what you are trying to achieve. Personally I dont really like them but they have their uses I suppose.

    Thread Starter alanauckland86

    (@alanauckland86)

    I read that it would be best to create a child theme so then you can update the parent one without affecting the child one. Which seems like a good idea to me.

    I think I miss read. I went to the themes site. It restricts widgets which is different I guess to plugins, not sure how but Link below.
    Theme here

    It does have a pro version, however I would rather not pay for things to much.

    This is my first site for a real client.

    I know a little bit of coding and want to learn more. But at the moment I just need to get the site together well enough to be up asap and manage the rest later.

    Thank you for the speedy reply!

    Yeh it will just be a function somewhere to restrict widgets. Prob pretty easy to remove to be honest.

    If you are just making CSS changes then you could add custom CSS with a plugin easy enough.

    Depends if you want to update your theme with their updates. I tend to build my own so never bother with child themes

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