Hi, so, I am a somewhat of a novice, was making a wordpress site years ago and have decided to try again, so i have moderate experience.
When I read this on your instructions regarding ‘child themes’
“Please note that most of the child theme modifications are no longer required as the Cloud Library plugin allows you to create templates for posts, categories, tags, archives, 404 pages, author templates, search templates,etc.
This way your modifications no longer require code modification and are truly update proof.”
It confuses me.
I do not intend on altering the code (for now) and I just want to use the website theme and it’s features but I am confused about this ‘no longer needed child theme’ and then ‘lets help you figure out how to instal a child theme’ right after.
For now, I just want to know what the best way is to install this so that I will not run into unforeseen complications down the road.
What is the process/circumstances of ‘NOT’ using the child theme and updating your theme?
What is the process/circumstances of using the child theme and updating your theme?
I guess if your instructions were a bit more detailed regarding this I would no be so confused right now. Once you start saying ‘no need for child theme’ I guess it would be better to explain why more than just a link that leads to instructions that do not actually tell you anything about that.
Perhaps one day after setting everything up, all the blogs, all the personal edits of theme pages and logos, if I then need to change something in the code THEN I would need the child theme? If so THEN is it possible to instal child theme or is this something I should do ahead of time just in case?
lol, explain it to me like I am 5 years old 🙂
Thanks.
This is how I understand it thus far: the child theme is important because all of my posts and personalization of the theme are done on the child theme and when I go to update the theme when you update it, I merely replace the main theme and all of my edits and blogs and personalization remains intact and the ‘base main theme’ is what is overwritten by the update. Right?
SO, if you are saying ‘child theme no longer needed because of our invention and update proof’ how does your new process of no child theme work and how does it NOT overwrite all my stuff if I am updating the main theme then?
🙂
Hello @Chris269!
If you will use in the future cloud templates (that we recommend), then you have in the TagDiv Composer a lot of options for customization. We wanted to create the easiest platform, so you can build your website without knowing any code and have the possibility to customize every field from any demo. That’s why you do not need a child theme with cloud templates. But you can use the child theme you have with the default templates.
The child theme is not overwritten by the update. An issue with that could be the compatibility of your child theme with the new version of our theme.
If you have some custom modifications directly in the theme files, then better save the code and replace it after every update. You can use a staging plugin, so you won’t ruin your website.
Thank you!
Ok, thanks, I think I see documentation on updating the theme now, it was just a little confusing in the child theme section of your instructions.
Thanks.
