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# madaa

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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Basic upgrade question](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-upgrade-question/)
 *  Thread Starter [madaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madaa/)
 * (@madaa)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-upgrade-question/#post-2453922)
 * Thanks guys, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions but I still
   don’t see the benefit of upgrading wp. I read about the child theme but still
   don’t understand how can you enjoy all new features of the upgrade. Let’s say
   your child theme was heavily customised and it relies on functions from the parent
   theme and wp core functions. Once you upgrade some of those functions will be
   gone/deprecated and it’ll screw up your child theme. Now you have to go figure
   the source of all your issues. Does this make sense? I understand that the parent
   theme stays intact but its a new version now where your child theme was overriding/
   adding to a previous version of that parent theme. The issue I see is that you
   will not enjoy any new features or even worse, bugs will appear cause your version
   of the theme is older. Do I have to manually go through every file I override
   in my child theme and Add/Change/Remove modules to make it work like the new 
   parent them?
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [Basic upgrade question](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-upgrade-question/)
 *  Thread Starter [madaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madaa/)
 * (@madaa)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-upgrade-question/#post-2453878)
 * thanks, but what if I have to modify theme files like content-aside.php, the 
   parent theme would not be accessible any more, right?

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