Grandchild Theme Alternative?

  • Resolved iasher

    (@iasher)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    I previously purchased a theme which turns out was actually a child theme. I am needing to make some core changes to the theme but I don’t want them to be overwritten in the next theme update.

    When i attempted to create a child theme from the current (child) theme, WordPress gave me an error saying that it was an invalid theme to create a child theme from.

    I tried copying the theme folder of the current theme, renaming it, and editing the style.css header so it would appear as a child theme but when I activated it, the css was missing from the bulk of the site and I’m not sure why it didn’t carry over.

    We need to create a child theme from the current child theme, but I don’t know the best practice on how to accomplish this.

    Ideas? Thanks in advance

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    You are right to try copying the theme folder and renaming it – but as to why that didn’t work is something that the theme developers should be able to help you with. It would be a bit unreasonable for them to expect you to hack the theme directly. They should have a safe way for you to make the modifications you need.

    Thread Starter iasher

    (@iasher)

    Many thanks!!

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