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Child theme of a child theme (Jessica)

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  • October 15, 2019 at 2:55 am #494006
    jaqkar
    Participant

    Hi

    I am using some custom page template and would like to retain these when I update my Jessica theme. Can I create a child of Jessica and keep the custom pages in there? What will need to be in my functions.php etc?

    October 15, 2019 at 5:28 am #494008
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    WordPress does not support grandchild themes (Child theme of a child theme)

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    Victor
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    October 15, 2019 at 5:41 am #494010
    jaqkar
    Participant

    That is very un-grandparent like 🙂

    What would be the best way to manage custom page templates then and not having it over written with theme updates?

    October 15, 2019 at 6:34 am #494012
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Child themes are never updated automatically. Only the Genesis Framework receives regular updates. Child themes are designed for the purpose of holding your customizations to prevent updates to the parent theme from overwriting them. There's rarely a compelling reason to update a child theme, but if you must, it's a manual, compare the changes and apply process.

    Regards,

    Victor
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    October 15, 2019 at 7:28 am #494014
    jaqkar
    Participant

    Thanks Victor

    October 15, 2019 at 1:52 pm #494030
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    Hi @jaqkar, just a side note here. Jessica is a third party theme and there is a checkbox for updates under the Jessica settings to let you know when 9Seeds has updated Jessica. Their Changelog is here. So it might be pretty easy for you to keep up with the updates and manually implement them. Or, if you only have templates, maybe think about putting the templates into a plugin.

    Need help with customization or troubleshooting? Reach out to me.

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