How to Create a Child Theme In WordPress
This video tutorial covers how to make a child theme in WordPress. You can — and sometimes should — just modify your CSS via the new “Additional CSS” feature in 4.7: https://wpshout.com/quick-guides/cust....
But when you want to make bigger changes — especially to the PHP in the template files themselves, that’s not enough. That’s where you should be using a child theme in WordPress. We’ve written at greater length about why you should use a child theme when you want to change ways the theme you’re using works on a WordPress site: https://wpshout.com/always-use-child-....
Any changes you make that aren’t on a child theme will be lost as soon as you update your theme (which you’ll want to do frequently to prevent issues with security and get new features).
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