Title: child theme edit
Last modified: November 29, 2017

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# child theme edit

 *  Resolved [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit-2/)
 * I am attempting to edit functions.php of a child theme (local install), via ‘
   Apperance – editor’ and this warning comes up:
 * >  Heads up!
   > You appear to be making direct edits to your theme in the WordPress dashboard.
   > We recommend that you don’t! Editing your theme directly could break your site
   > and your changes may be lost in future updates. If you need to tweak more than
   > your theme’s CSS, you might want to try making a child theme.
   > If you decide to go ahead with direct edits anyway, use a file manager to create
   > a copy with a new name and hang on to the original. That way, you can re-enable
   > a functional version if something goes wrong.
   > Go back
 * What is wrong?

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit-2/#post-9731998)
 * That notice should only be displayed if you were editing a parent theme directly.
 * Can you please double-, triple-, even quadruple-check that it’s indeed the child
   theme _that’s actually loaded in the editor_?
 * If you simple clicked on EDITOR, it’s possible a different theme (other than 
   the child theme) got loaded into the editor, hence the warning. In that case 
   you’d have to continue and switch the theme loaded in the editor.
 *  Thread Starter [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit-2/#post-9732054)
 * thanks for the reply.
 * could be possible –
    although it was showing the chikd theme’s stylesheet and
   the child theme’s name in the editor … however, now I can’t reproduce the message
   even after clearing cookies etc… so you might be right. I’ll keep my eyes open
   to see if this happens again.
 *  [euphemism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/euphemism/)
 * (@euphemism)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit-2/#post-9879754)
 * IT ABSOLUTELY SHOWS THIS ON CHILD THEME EDITS. VERY ANNOYING. ENOUGH WITH THE
   NANNY WARNINGS ALREADY! I’m going to search every last file in WordPress and 
   destroy this worthless annoyance.

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 * [edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit/)
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 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit-2/#post-9879754)
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