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Edit style.css directly in StudioPress theme

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  • January 26, 2014 at 8:10 am #87081
    loomchild
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    Hi,

    As far as I know in WordPress it is considered a bad practice to edit the customized theme directly. The correct thing to do is to create a child theme, include the parent stylesheet and customize it there.

    However, it is impossible to create child theme of a Genesis child. What is the best thing to do then? Should I create separate custom.css file and include it in the header (but then I need to compare two stylesheets to understand the website behaviour and it's impossible to override some settings)? Or is it better idea to modify style.css directly (but what happens if the child theme is updated by StudioPress - I do not want to lose my modifications)? What if I want to make other modifications, for example in functions.php - is it good and clean solution to mix them with StudioPress theme?

    Thanks and sorry for asking obvious question - but I am new to StudioPress and I got a little confused,
    Jarek

    January 26, 2014 at 8:39 am #87085
    Davinder Singh Kainth
    Member

    Download Sample child theme from your downloads area at my.studiopress.com

    Customize it as per requirement. You won't lose changes even when your upgrade to new Genesis version.

    Sunshine PRO genesis theme
    Need Genesis help? Davinder @ iGuiding Media | My Blog | Fresh Genesis Themes

    January 26, 2014 at 9:26 am #87096
    loomchild
    Member

    Hi,

    I want to use Modern Portfolio Pro as a baseline, not sample child theme. Can I safely modify it without fear of Modern Portfolio Pro to be updated?

    January 26, 2014 at 10:51 pm #87188
    Davinder Singh Kainth
    Member

    Modern Portfolio became Modern Portfolio Pro because of new back-end structure of HTML5 was introduced. Use new Modern Portfolio Pro without any issue - it is unlikely to be updated in coming years.

    Sunshine PRO genesis theme
    Need Genesis help? Davinder @ iGuiding Media | My Blog | Fresh Genesis Themes

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