Child theme

Good morning!
First, no need to feel that way…before I got use to a child theme before, I was like, what in the world is a child theme.

Basically how it works is that you install the parent theme (Celestial Lite), and then you install the child theme that comes with it. It’s important to always have the parent theme installed first, but doesn’t have to be active. The child theme after installing is the one that is activated and then any modifications you need to do are done with the child theme. This allows you to get parent theme updates as they come available without losing any changes you make.

OK, great. I’ve had the parent theme installed and active for a couple of weeks and have been having the BEST FUN with it!! So, now I’ll install and activate the child theme and redo all my changes in that.

Thanks so much and for a wonderful theme. If I have questions about the benefits of the paid over the free theme, where would I ask them?

You’re very welcome! As for the questions regarding the commercial versions, best to contact me from my styledthemes.com site for that.

As for Celestial Lite, I’m glad to hear you’ve been having the BEST FUN with it. A lot of downloads for it, soon to reach 90,000 ??

Perfect.

I understand the purpose of Child Theme but I never used it before either and can never find a child theme anywhere – where do I install and activate a child theme? I currently have Celestial Lite (parent theme I’m assuming) installed and activated.

Hi Motivology….the child theme is in the theme files in a folder called child-theme which has a zip file you install and activate.

Not sure if I went to the right place but I went to: Appearance > Themes. Are all of the themes in that folder are Child Themes?

For this, you can download the Celestial Lite to your computer, unzip the package then inside the child-theme folder is the one you would install.

Gotcha. I think I got it all figured out. I’ll let you know if I have any more questions. You’ve been very helpful, thank you!

Do I need to copy and paste the parent theme’s style.css into the child theme’s style.css so that I can make changes in the child theme?

only copy over what you want to change or add to. So for example, if the parent theme has this:

.container-box {
width: 200px;
height: 500px;
background-color: #000;
color: #fff;
}

…and you just want to change the background, then you would just do this in your child theme:

.container-box {
background-color: #fff;
}

Ah, make sense. I’ll have to play around. Thanks!