angelleyeI've created a child theme for my site here based on the ePhoto parent theme at Elegant Themes: http://sandbox.elitebodybronzing.com.
I'm a little bit confused, though, on how to replace elements within the theme. For example, by default the theme has a footer.php that includes the text "Powered by WordPress | Designed by ElegantThemes". I'd like to change this text to say something else.
The only way I can see to do that, though, is to copy footer.php from the parent theme into my child theme, make my change and upload it. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a child theme, though?
I'm going to end up doing this with quite a few different files and then when the theme is updated my files won't include their updates.
I know I could add CSS rules to my own style.css accordingly, but when it comes to actual page elements like this I'm not sure I get it.
Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
