Clarification of differences between Child Theme and Custom CSS

mandy122901
March 29, 2011 at 4:34 pm #762

I have the graphene theme and really like it and was just wondering if someone could clarify for me the difference between creating a Child Theme and using the Custom CSS option? Or is there NO difference and I will accomplish my goal of making color changes to the theme that will not get overridden with any upgrades?
Kim
March 29, 2011 at 5:00 pm #13468
Child Theme is the wise thing to do!

I told You in this mail 🙂

Changing Colors

And when You also ask here:

How to modify the theme using a child theme

Then please notice:
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One is enough.

Custom CSS is for a few changes or test before You aprove and

move the code to the Child Theme.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Kim
Admin

Syahir Hakim
May 13, 2011 at 11:29 am #13469

Any codes entered in the Custom CSS option will be included in every single page on every page load, and they are never cached by the browser. Using a child theme, your CSS codes are in a style.css file, which the browser cache (i.e. load from the server only once, then it gets stored on the user’s computer and the browser just reads it from there, no need to load it from the server again).

The Custom CSS option is meant for quick and simple CSS modifications that spans only a few lines of codes. Any more than that, use Child Theme.

weirdseyeview
May 25, 2011 at 6:28 am #13470

deleted. figured it out.