{"id":7494993,"date":"2016-06-19T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/is-mayor-changes-creating-child-theme-possible\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:45:37","slug":"is-mayor-changes-creating-child-theme-possible","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/is-mayor-changes-creating-child-theme-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Is major changes creating Child theme possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can understand it, a child theme is used to make minor changes to a parent theme, still enjoying most of the functions in the parent theme.<br \/>\nIt then make sense that you update the parent theme when possible.<br \/>\nBut how far can I change a Child theme?<br \/>\nI have not found a theme that I like, so I thought I should create a Child theme. But it would mean to remove almost everything within the parent theme.<br \/>\nIs that possible, and would it still make sense to update the parent theme when such updates are available? I mean &#8211; would it still protect the Child theme?<br \/>\nIs there a better solution (than a Child theme) if I want to make major alterations to a theme?)<br \/>\n(I don&#8217;t know how to write code by the way &#8211; so no such solutions would help)<br \/>\nBest regards<br \/>\nCarl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7494993","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-child-theme","topic-tag-parent-theme"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7494993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7494993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}