http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/trying-to-understand-choices-wchild-theme Support Forum - Topic: Trying to understand choices w/child theme en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:07:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/trying-to-understand-choices-wchild-theme#post-86567 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:44:30 +0000 Ismael 86567@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hi alex2545,</p> <p>Any changes you made to the template files including custom.css and functions.php will get overwritten by the theme update unless you are using a child theme. But, just to make sure, just backup your custom.css file.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ismael </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/trying-to-understand-choices-wchild-theme#post-86515 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:57:10 +0000 alex2545 86515@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Ok, thanks Devin.</p> <p>All the stuff that's in the Quick CSS box - does that get overwritten upon theme updates? Should I put that in a custom css file in the child theme if I don't want it overwritten?</p> <p>Thanks again! </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/trying-to-understand-choices-wchild-theme#post-86509 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:45:42 +0000 Devin 86509@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hi alex2545,</p> <p>For the most part, when you want to make a change to something in the parent theme you will add a css rule that overwrites it or a new php function to the child theme.</p> <p>If you wanted to make a big changes, then you would add the file to the child theme completely. Ex - using a different single.php, the single.php in the child theme will be used instead.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Devin </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/trying-to-understand-choices-wchild-theme#post-86479 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:07:57 +0000 alex2545 86479@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If I make changes to any php or css files, should I copy them into the child directory so that they don't become over written when I update the parent theme?</p> <p>Thanks! </p>