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# kop44

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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Make a child theme after changes to parent have been made](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/)
 *  Thread Starter [kop44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kop44/)
 * (@kop44)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/#post-2666003)
 * Oh I understand now. Thanks very much. I will try what you said: I’ll try to 
   add the files that I remember changing.
 * Thanks again for your help!
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Make a child theme after changes to parent have been made](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/)
 *  Thread Starter [kop44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kop44/)
 * (@kop44)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/#post-2665943)
 * Oh. I thought that the purpose of having a child theme was so that when you update
   the twentyeleven theme for example, you don’t lose all your changes?
 * I thought that if copied over all my modified twentyeleven files, and then called
   the theme modifiedtwentyeleven, I would be safe from any updates to twentyeleven.
 * Have I misunderstood?
 * Thanks for your help!
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Make a child theme after changes to parent have been made](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/)
 *  Thread Starter [kop44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kop44/)
 * (@kop44)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/#post-2665932)
 * So is it not possible for me to copy all files over so that I cover all bases?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Make a child theme after changes to parent have been made](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/)
 *  Thread Starter [kop44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kop44/)
 * (@kop44)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/#post-2665911)
 * When you say “add the files” do you mean the .php files for example.
 * As far as I remember, I went into the header files and the style files for example.
   So I would have to add them – is that what you mean?
 * Thank you.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Make a child theme after changes to parent have been made](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/)
 *  Thread Starter [kop44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kop44/)
 * (@kop44)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-child-theme-after-changes-to-parent-have-been-made/#post-2665894)
 * hmm… I’m not entirely sure what I changed and what I didn’t. I’m new to this 
   and was just playing around with things until I got them like I wanted.

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