Title: Grandchild theme?
Last modified: October 7, 2016

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# Grandchild theme?

 *  Resolved anonymized-7517021
 * (@anonymized-7517021)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/)
 * Hi!
 * I would like to make a grandchild theme of Circa. Is this possible and how do
   I do it?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/)
 * (@laranz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/#post-8261592)
 * Hi,
 * Why not edit the Circa ( child theme of Hex ) directly? Grandchild themes are
   bad practice, [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/65853/17902](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/65853/17902)
 * Let us know,
 * Thanks,
    laranz.
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-7517021
 * (@anonymized-7517021)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/#post-8261616)
 * But won’t my changes be lost if they update the child theme (Circa)?
 * Maybe I could use a CSS plugin instead? I just want to make CSS changes.
 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/#post-8262213)
 * Hi [@rebecka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebecka/),
 * As I noted [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/icons-for-the-menu/#post-8262174),
   a custom CSS plugin will be enough for you if you only need to make CSS changes.
 * As you need to have [Jetpack](https://jetpack.com/) installed for Genericons,
   you could activate its [custom CSS module](https://jetpack.com/support/custom-css/),
   and then add CSS via Appearance > Edit CSS.
 * Alternatively, you can search the WordPress plugin repository for standalone 
   CSS plugins:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=custom+css](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=custom+css)
 * Hope that’s helpful! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-7517021
 * (@anonymized-7517021)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/#post-8264331)
 * I agree, a custom CSS plugin is the way to go for this. 🙂
 *  [Siobhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siobhyb/)
 * (@siobhyb)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/grandchild-theme-3/#post-8270596)
 * Perfect! 🙂

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