Child Themes

  • I’m a little confused as to what a child theme is considered. I know the purpose of using one but I’m not sure how to tell if I’m set up using one. That’s the confusion.

    My active them is Storefront and I use Woocommerce. That’s all that I know for sure. Can someone enlighten me so I don’t lose everything I’ve worked on so far when an update comes out.

    Thanks

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  • What exactly have you all edited that you are afraid of being lost.

    Did you edit the style.css file under the editor section?

    Just back up your posts, as long as you have the admin login, you’re not gonna lose anything. I’m considering making a child myself, but it is coding, so it will take time.

    Thread Starter DaleCarr

    (@dalecarr)

    I haven’t edited so to speak anything…..just used the program to build my site. I haven’t done anything to the style css file. From what I have read and understood is that if I make my edits or build off of the active theme I guess you would call it, that when an upgrade is applied I will lose all of my specific input info. So it advised making all your changes from a child Theme that way the Parent is what is getting updated not your child. Now thats how I understand it, but I’m a noob to this. I build computers. I don’t program them..:)

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