Updated WP and Twenty Ten

  • And now all the customizing I did to the template is gone.

    Is it safe to just overwrite any of the php and css with my versions?
    Or am I potentially going to overwrite things that were important parts of the upgrade?

    Because going back to figure out what I changed line by line is going to be a huge PITA.

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  • should be no problem, made the same mistake once.

    after that:
    1. get the folder with the theme via ftp
    2. rename it (the folder)
    3. rename the theme in styles.css
    reupload and change theme.

    then your theme shall not be overwritten the next time you update.

    Thread Starter grunzster

    (@grunzster)

    I have everything backed up anyway, and really only a handful of files I changed.

    Thanks!

    It is best to make child theme and make your changes in child theme so that you do not loose your custom settings if the theme is updated.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Thread Starter grunzster

    (@grunzster)

    But then aren’t you potentially losing improvements, new functionality, etc?

    Only takes a few minutes to overwrite a few files.

    No if you make a child theme of twentyten and follow the instructions as above you still will be using the changes you made in child theme and the rest from twentyten theme so when you update you are updating twentyten and keeping the changes in child theme as that is not touched during updates.

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