Child from Parent Theme

  • delhaize

    (@delhaize)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I am a little bit new in the world of websites. I have build my own website using Worpress 4.6.1. I found a nice and free theme (BDLR) and adapted it to my needs. Now I am hearing that I am in a lot of risk because when the theme is adjusted, so will my website… Hmmm…. So now I have to change my current website into a child version. But how??? When I select the theme I am using there is a “child-tab” but I am afraid that when I press this button the change immedtiately takes place and my website is lost. I have made a copy of my website using FileZilla, but then again I am not sure if this copy is really a good copy… Get it?? 😉 So, who can help my with some simple instructions to get the job done?

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  • riotxoa

    (@riotxoa)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    The best way to build a child theme and to customize WordPress look or behaviour is learning to code. It’s really easy an adicting.

    A nice start point to child themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Before you make any change it’s a good idea to do a full backup of your whole site. That means you need to copy the file system (the way you have done using FileZilla), and the database. It’s also a good idea to use a backup plugin to do this, like BackWPUp or another like that.

    Be sure to understand and know restoring that backups, for recover the website if something goes wrong.

    Another good idea is to do all this tests (and to develop in general) in a development environment. You can build your own local development environment and do all that tests and more stuff without taking too much risks.

    Bye!

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