Can I make my current theme with changes a child theme?

  • I’ve made changes to my current theme (style.css file). Now I’m told I should have made them in a child theme instead. My question is, can I make my current theme with the changes a child theme (do I just rename it?) and then reload the original regular theme without any ill-effects? How would I go about doing this?

    Thank you for your help.

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  • Is the style.css file the only thing you’ve changed?

    Thread Starter Scott Foshee

    (@scott-foshee)

    I’m not positive. I think I made changes to the header and footer.php files along the way. To be sure I’d like to just move and rename everything.

    Well, don’t do that. You can look at the files by date modified to determine which ones you’ve changed and keep ONLY those.

    So rename your theme current folder and upload a new copy of the original.

    Remove all files you’ve not edited (this is important), change your css file in the child theme per the instructions https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    When you’re done select the child theme in the admin as your current theme.

    The styles.css in your child theme should also only have modifications and not the entire parent theme’s styles. Hopefully you’ve added your new ones to the end and it will be easy to just remove everything else.

    It might take a few minutes longer, but it will be worth for you in the long run.

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