Install new theme over existing child theme

  • I am setting up my first WP site and tinkered with the Twenty Fourteen theme and added a child theme as recommended. The theme doesn’t do it for me and I now want to try Customizr theme.
    Do I load my Twenty Fourteen child theme page and simply install Customizr over that and then create a child for Customizr or do I first remove the child theme for Twenty Fourteen and load the parent theme and then install Cutomizr over that?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    You can keep your Twenty Fourteen Child Theme if you want, you don’t have to delete it. It acts as another theme basically. Think of it as just another theme sitting in your /themes folder. However if you delete the Twenty Fourteen theme, which we recommend you don’t for debugging reasons, then you might as well delete the Child Theme.

    Thread Starter illinge

    (@illinge)

    Thanks Andrew…..
    So I do the following then:
    1. Load the Twenty Fourteen child theme (aka my blog site)
    2. Navigate to Themes
    3. Select and click on install for Customizr theme
    4. It will then take on all the pages, posts, plugins etc of the Twenty Fourteen child theme
    5. I then create a new child theme for Customizr and start changing that and use it as my site

    Are my steps correct?
    A quick Q: If in my child theme I make changes via Appearance-Customize will those changes be saved under my child theme the same way it keeps code I enter in the child stylesheet? i.e. will a new parent version of my theme overwrite a background color I set under Appearance-Customize as opposed to using css?….shoo!

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Yes your steps are correct, until you press the “active” link in your dashboard (Appearance > Themes) your website will continue to use the current theme (which is your Twenty Fourteen Child Theme), but step 6. would be to activate your Customizr Child Theme.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    A quick Q: If in my child theme I make changes via Appearance-Customize will those changes be saved under my child theme the same way it keeps code I enter in the child stylesheet?

    It may have even more precedence, your CSS in the Customize section may be more likely to override your parent theme’s CSS than in a Child Theme style.css file; because I think it is loaded later in the DOM.

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