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Best practice for customizing a child theme?

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  • March 7, 2013 at 7:40 pm #24915
    WPMonkey
    Member

    I'm customizing a child theme, and I'm wondering if I should change the CHILD_THEME_NAME reference in the functions.php file to my custom name or will this break things? I'm assuming that if I'm customizing that I should rename all of these sorts of references so that there are no conflicts.

    March 8, 2013 at 6:18 am #24970
    Susan
    Moderator

    This little guide might help you:

     

    Renaming a StudioPress child theme

    April 29, 2013 at 11:58 pm #38509
    fssbob
    Member

    Thanks Susan for that link.

    I have a slightly different "best practice" question: Should I rename my customized child themes? What are the pros and cons of doing so?

    Bob
    Flying Seal Systems

    April 30, 2013 at 9:53 am #38574
    Susan
    Moderator

    fssbob:

    I think you should rename a customized child theme:

    Pros - if you want to use the base child theme again to customize to another child theme, you're not going to mess up all the work you put into customizing the theme. (It's easier to re-use the same theme again and again if you rename them).

    If the theme is updated, and you don't think about it, and update the original child theme, you will lose all your changes.

    Cons - I can't really think of one...

    April 30, 2013 at 10:03 am #38577
    fssbob
    Member

    That makes sense to me. Thanks!

    Bob
    Flying Seal Systems

    April 30, 2013 at 10:06 am #38578
    Nomad
    Member

    thanks for that Susan......I have been wandering the same thing

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