StudioPress

Forum navigation

Are You Using The WordPress Block Editor?

Genesis now offers plugins that help you build better sites faster with the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). Try the feature-rich free versions of each plugin for yourself!

Genesis Blocks Genesis Custom Blocks

Safely Editing StudioPress Child Themes?

Welcome!

These forums are for general discussion on WordPress and Genesis. Official support for StudioPress themes is offered exclusively at My StudioPress. Responses in this forum are not guaranteed. Please note that this forum will require a new username, separate from the one used for My.StudioPress.

Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › General Discussion › Safely Editing StudioPress Child Themes?

This topic is: not resolved

Tagged: ,

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • September 16, 2014 at 6:14 pm #124713
    dd50m
    Member

    What's the safest/most update-proof way to edit StudioPress child themes, such as Metro Pro? Do I just edit, for example the functions.php or style.css file that is in the WP admin under Appearance/Editor?

    I am used to having to create a child theme before doing any theme editing to prevent loss of customization when the theme is updated. I tried to do this with the Metro Pro theme, but the Themes page in the WP admin gave me an error message: "The "metro-pro" theme is not a valid parent theme."

    So, I guess I'm looking for the assurance that if I make changes to the functions.php file and the style.css file, then StudioPress comes out with an update, my changes won't be wiped out.

    Please provide detailed "Best Practices" regarding customizing the StudioPress child themes.

    September 16, 2014 at 9:21 pm #124726
    Susan
    Moderator

    You are doing it the right way. If you edit the child theme, any updates to WordPress or Genesis will not wipe out your customizations.

    Child themes very rarely get updated, and if they do, they are not automatic updates, so you can choose to update or not.

    September 17, 2014 at 8:23 am #124758
    dd50m
    Member

    Thank you for the clarification, Susan!

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The forum ‘General Discussion’ is closed to new topics and replies.