Is it too late for child theme?

  • Resolved jackson2545

    (@jackson2545)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’m taking over the admin of a wordpress site. The previous person did not create a child theme and did many modifications. Now I have to update the theme. Is there a way to create a child theme from what they’ve done, update the main theme core files and then apply the newly-created child theme?

    Thanks!

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  • First thing you should do is make a backup to your pc, of the existing themes folder.

    It all depends on what they did to the theme. I would start by making a copy of the customized theme and getting a copy of the base theme – same version – and doing a folder compare. If you use a Mac, you can use the program TextWrangler to do this. There is probably something similar for Windows.

    Once you get a list of the changes that were made you will have a better idea if you can convert them to a child theme or not.

    Thread Starter jackson2545

    (@jackson2545)

    Wow, sounds like a major hassle. I will try first to talk them into me just re-doing it correctly with most up-to-date theme and new child theme. Thank you for responding!

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