Is it critical to create a child theme?

  • DavidGraham2013

    (@davidgraham2013)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I’m sort of new to WordPress, being using Dreamweaver for a few years.

    Now I want to create a site that isn’t going to simply disappear down the track when I update everything, I’m not to sure how to create a child theme and connect the child to the parent using the ftp server folders and CSS, is that correct?

    Any advice on safeguarding my site would be appreciated.

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  • Keith Driscoll

    (@keithdriscoll)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    It is not critical. However it is beneficial. The primary purpose of using a child theme is to make updating the main theme easier.

    Let’s say you want to add a useful PHP function to your theme. You would simply create a file functions.php in the child theme folder and WordPress would append the contents of that file to the functions.php file in the main theme. Sounds complicated but once you grasp it, it really is the better route to go 🙂

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

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