Hi
After 3 years of using WP I’m still confused about child theme.
We are using child theme. Everything works. Now, we have theme update, and i update main theme, correct?
Of what use is child theme, if i have to update those files too, otherwise, theme will not be updated!?
Am I missing something here?
Thank you
Heh. Yeah. This is why I don’t use child themes. Makes extra work for most themes now due to all the major changes to WordPress the past year.
Best to make changes to the main files then keep track of that, and just don’t use child theme at all. Don’t even upload it.
This is only my opinion. i don’t work here.
Hi @gregy1403
The point of a child theme is to keep the customization even if the main theme it’s updated. But this is not always valid, because once in a while the child theme it’s also updated, or if the main theme pass through a major update it’s possible that some customizations not work well anymore. If you use child theme for files customizations it’s a good practice to check update_log.txt file for each update and see what files had been modified so if those specific files are used in the child theme you will have to check your customizations to not break the functionality of the theme.
Hope this help.
Thanks!
