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Making a child theme out of Education

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Tagged: child, education

  • This topic has 5 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 6 months ago by Ren Ventura.
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  • December 12, 2014 at 2:10 pm #134412
    slobizman
    Member

    I have a site running on the Education theme and I want to make some CSS changes. I understand without a child theme I have to make the changes directly to the style.css file, which isn't a good idea in case a new version of Education comes out and overwrites it.

    Is the best solution to make a child theme of the Education theme and then make the changes there? Or is Education already a child theme and I would be unable to make a child theme of a child theme?

    I'm familiar with working on existing child themes's functions and style files, as I have two other sites that are created as child themes of Genesis. However, a developer set them up for me. So, I'm unsure if there are any problems with at this point on a live site, to make a child theme of the existing Education theme. If this is something I can do, can someone please tell me the steps I need to perform in order to get it set up like this?

    Thank you.

    December 12, 2014 at 8:06 pm #134431
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Education is already a child theme so you can modify the code safely.


    Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

    December 15, 2014 at 4:56 pm #134624
    slobizman
    Member

    Does Genesis ever update child themes, where a new version would overwrite the CSS file I've modified?

    December 16, 2014 at 10:37 am #134674
    slobizman
    Member

    I read on a blog somewhere that Genesis never does update a child theme without renaming it. For example, and update to Education would be Education Pro. Is that right, meaning I could safely update the Education files?

    December 24, 2014 at 4:52 pm #135281
    slobizman
    Member

    *bump" See last question please. Thanks.

    December 24, 2014 at 6:05 pm #135286
    Ren Ventura
    Member

    Child themes are not updated. Even if they were, they wouldn't be automatically updated so your files are always safe. The only child theme I'm aware of that does include automatic updates is Dynamik and that's because all of your customizations are saved as options. But you can edit away without ever worrying about your customizations being overwritten.


    Web & Software Developer & Blogger | RenVentura.com | Follow Me on Twitter @CLE_Ren

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