Using Dreamweaver with a hosted child theme

  • Please help me. I’m still quite new to this.
    Please see this youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErN7H9vO8SM

    The author is using Dreamweaver to find individual lines of code as highlighted by Firebug and then changing the code to customise the site. However, I thought that changing the root theme files would mean all changes get lost if the theme is updated in the future, right? If that’s the case, how do you use this tactic after you’ve created a child theme?

    Basically, what I want is an easy way to add my own customisations (i.e user created logos, backgrounds – removing PHP code in the source files) via a child theme so all future updates do not lose my changes.

    Please help me.
    Thanks.

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  • Dreamweaver is not an easy way to use WP. Have you set up a Child Theme?

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Thread Starter bluewomble88

    (@bluewomble88)

    Yes, I have.
    However, in the editor box, it just shows an empty space more or less with the links to the parent theme.

    I’m not really sure what to do from here to customise the footer for example.

    Okay, so any files that you want to modify using the child theme, you just need to put a copy of the parent theme file in the child theme and modify the one in the child theme. So create a copy of footer.php file in the child theme and change that one.

    Thread Starter bluewomble88

    (@bluewomble88)

    Is it really that simple?

    I just copy the header.php and footer.php files into my child theme folder and edit those?
    Will those changes overwrite the source files successfully?

    Yep :)! It’s pretty simple – except maybe if and when you want to modify or change anything in the functions.php file – never copy that parent one to the child theme – it will crash the site!

    If you run into a question about the functions.php file, just come ask someone first :)!

    Thread Starter bluewomble88

    (@bluewomble88)

    Will do. Thanks so much.

    Do you happen to know of a killer online resource that lists all of the css commands I’d need to use to customise my site? I know a little css and I can use Firebug to find the elements I need to change. However, some of the more skilful changes (i.e. scaling content, making content semi-opaque using rgba etc) are beyond my knowledge and I wouldn’t know how to apply them in a child theme.

    Your help and guidance is highly appreciated. ??

    Yep, sure:

    https://www.w3schools.com/css/

    https://css-tricks.com/

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/CSS

    There’s many others (Google will be happy to show you ?? ) but those are some of my frequent ones.

    And you’re quite welcome too.

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