Import Widgets etc.

  • Resolved wood1e

    (@wood1e)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I was looking at your configurator plugin, and I noticed the ‘copy widgets etc.

    So would this mean that the Widgets etc would the be controlled from within the Child Theme?

    Being new at this, I am a little confused? What benefits would this be?

    On the presumption that the theme updates etc would not be updating the themes widgets etc. So any custom modifications to the widgets etc, would not be overwritten with a theme update?

    Or would they therefore it would be a benefit to have widgets etc in child theme?

    many thanks and excuse my ignorance

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-configurator/

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  • Plugin Author lilaeamedia

    (@lilaeamedia)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    First, lets discuss how WordPress handles Menus, Widgets and other Customizer options.

    In the database, each theme has an option entry named “theme_mods”. This contains the menu locations, and other options. Widgets are a special case because they are stored in the “theme_mods” when the theme is inactive, then moved to their own option record for the live theme.

    This allows you to store options specific to each theme that are not lost if you switch from one theme to another.

    When you create a child theme from a theme that already has “theme_mods” set up, the child theme will not automatically inherit the parent themes settings. This is often a point of confusion, because it seems like all the options were “reset” or “lost” even though the rest of the theme appears the same.

    Child theme configurator allows you to duplicate all of the “theme_mod” settings in the new child theme so you don’t have to start over from scratch.

    Of course, if you did not have any options set up in the parent theme to begin with, this feature is irrelevant.

    I hope this helps clear things up a bit.

    Feel free to use our contact form at http://www.lilaeamedia.com/about/contact for faster replies. It also lets you add more details (including screenshots) if you need additional assistance.

    Thanks,

    -jf

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