Title: De-linking Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# De-linking Theme

 *  Resolved [Ironlung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ironlung/)
 * (@ironlung)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/de-linking-theme/)
 * A while ago I hacked around in one the of the base themes, Twenty Eleven perhaps,
   to make the blog look like the rest of my site. Now wordpress is telling me my
   theme needs to be upgraded. How can I de-link the theme so I don’t accidentally
   upgrade and overwrite my changes?

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 *  [zeaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeaks/)
 * (@zeaks)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/de-linking-theme/#post-3144555)
 * This is why it’s a good idea to create a child theme [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * You have two choices, go through your theme and copy all of your changes to a
   child theme if you can find them all.
    The other is to rename Twenty Eleven to
   your own them name so it doesn’t get overwritten, that defeats the purpose of
   upgrading Twenty Eleven though.
 *  Thread Starter [Ironlung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ironlung/)
 * (@ironlung)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/de-linking-theme/#post-3144598)
 * Thanks I didn’t realise it was so easy as just renaming the theme…

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/de-linking-theme/#post-3144598)
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