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  • Thread Starter michaelperret

    (@michaelperret)

    Thanks for the reply Root. Your idea is a good one. Except that I already went ahead with the WP 3.0.3 upgrade, after saving copies of my “altered parent” style.css file, functions.php file, page.php file and onecolumn-page.php file.

    I thought the upgrade had gone off without a hitch at first, until 20 minutes after upgrading I noticed many of the changes were no longer in effect. I do not have a FULL theme files backup (just the files mentioned above), so I don’t think your suggestion will work for me.

    My first attempt to solve the problem was to save the upgraded style.css file and then replace it completely with my old altered style.css file, but in the process I noticed that, even though this WP upgrade to 3.0.3 was a WP thing, turns out it still had an effect on the theme related files and much of the coding format has changed. So, when I pasted in the old file style.css file, the whole format of my WP website is now messed up.

    Should I go ahead and try seeing if things get cleared up if I go ahead and replace the upgraded php files with my old, altered versions or does that having little chance of being the solution?

    As is, I have no child theme yet, a sub set of my old altered parent css and php files are permanently gone, and I don’t know how to get my site back to looking the way it should…

    -Thanks-

    Thread Starter michaelperret

    (@michaelperret)

    Ok, so I am mildly retarded and realized that this WP upgrade to 3.0.3 isn’t the same as a parent theme upgrade so it wouldn’t necessarily alter my theme related css and php files. So I just saved all my altered css and php files in notepad and went ahead with the upgrade. Thankfully, no coding alterations were lost.

    Sorry for my slightly misguided question, however, inevitably I will still run into the same problems when TwentyTen is upgraded, so I still need some advice for the best plan of action for writing my child theme…

    How can I get all the changes that I’ve already made in the css and php files of my TwentyTen parent theme represented in a child theme, without having to spend hours going through everything, comparing my altered parent files to the original parent files and plugging the code alterations into the child theme one by one?

    Thanks a bundle!

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