How to make childtheme, and keep changes

  • ragulin

    (@ragulin)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey, I am idiot, and I didnt make a childtheme. Im in deep [doo-doo] now, cos I need to udpate WP, and the udpate ruins all my Theme changes. Is there some easy way, how to make childtheme now, and keep all changes I did in the Theme? I have also problem with moving WP from hosting on localhost, for testing…if you have some easy tutorial how to move WP from hosting on localhost, it would be also awesome.

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  • Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there!

    If you have heavily modified the theme, why not just rename it or give the theme a super high version number so it won’t display an update.

    Are you able to elaborate a little more on what you mean when you say “move from WP from hosting on localhost”? Do you mean duplicating a live site to a local development environment? Or the other way around?

    Thread Starter ragulin

    (@ragulin)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    So the theme udpates are useless? I dont know…I did udpate CSS and stuff like that, I didnt do much about safety etc.

    And yeah, duplicating the live site to a local develpopment environment. I am using XAMPP, and I am stuck. I used some tutorials, but it is everything -How to move your website from XAMPP on hosting- …I need the other way 🙁

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    10 years, 5 months ago

    You may want to take a look at what was updated if the theme provides a changelog just in case.

    As for migrating, you can try:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

    It does a fairly good job from what I’ve seen and read – haven’t personally used it. That is one way of doing it. You can also export your site by going to Tools > Export from your Dashboard.

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