Title: Editing Child Theme
Last modified: June 12, 2018

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# Editing Child Theme

 *  [rjr333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjr333/)
 * (@rjr333)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-6/)
 * Hi, I want to update my theme, i have read some posts but am a bit unsure.
 * So Currently there is a pinboard Parent theme and a childs theme. But the child
   theme is the active one.
    Does this mean I edit the parent theme and then make
   it the active one?
 * Thanks RJR

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 *  [vivrathore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vivrathore/)
 * (@vivrathore)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-6/#post-10392104)
 * No, if you want to update your current theme, creating child theme is recommended
   way. So if you have Parent theme and a child theme, you have to modify the child
   theme. You don’t have to do anything with parent theme, modify child theme and
   you should activate the child theme to see the changes.
 * A child theme is a copy of your parent theme + updates or modification you have
   made. It helps you to keep up your changes as it is when your parent theme gets
   updated to new version.
 * So, just activate the child theme and modify itself. Nothing to do with parent
   theme.
 *  [Prashant Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashantvatsh/)
 * (@prashantvatsh)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-6/#post-10393150)
 * Hi rjr333,
 * Please go through the link [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   If you want to edit any template then copy it from child theme and paste it on
   the same level it was in the parent theme and then edit it in the child theme.
   In this way, on your theme updation, you will not lose the changes you made. 
   If you will edit the template directly in the parent theme then on next theme
   update you will lose them.
 * Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [Prashant Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prashantvatsh/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-6/#post-10393150)
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