I read the documentation for “Child theme support,” which lists the following:
– 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.
– A child theme is not update proof. The files you add to your child theme will have to be replaced if they have been modified by a theme update.
Does this mean that Child themes are actually not recommended? The current Child Theme installed on my website is “Newspaper 7 Child theme,” and after installing Newspaper Version 9.7.4, trying to activate the Child Theme instead of the main theme results in a lot of problems.
Should I just stick with the main theme and ignore a Child theme moving forward, or should I install the new Child theme for the current theme?
Hello !
Since you have a tone of option in the new versions you can achieve everything you want only by Theme panel options. Since 9.7.4 you can use the fully capacity of child theme. But if there will be a future update where we are obligated to change the files structure then you will have to redo all the modifications. But those are rare cases.
So if you can, you can stick only to the basic theme. If you really need then you can use child theme freely.
You can now find out more here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/the-child-theme-support-tutorial/
Thank you !
