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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Copying Whole Parent style.css Into Child Theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-whole-parent-stylecss-into-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [michaelperret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelperret/)
 * (@michaelperret)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-whole-parent-stylecss-into-child-theme/#post-1820350)
 * 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   after upgrading I noticed many of the changes were no longer in effect.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-
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Copying Whole Parent style.css Into Child Theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-whole-parent-stylecss-into-child-theme/)
 *  Thread Starter [michaelperret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelperret/)
 * (@michaelperret)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/copying-whole-parent-stylecss-into-child-theme/#post-1820300)
 * 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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