WordPress rule no.1: Child Theme
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Child theme allows you to modify the theme without actually modifying the theme’s core codes, so it makes sure that you can safely update the theme whenever there’s a new update without losing your modifications.
I strongly recommend that you use child theme to modify the theme instead of modifying the theme’s files directly.
It’s quite easy to do. Here’s how:
- Create a graphene-child folder in
wp-content/themes/
- Create a new style.css file inside the graphene-child folder
- Copy and paste the following code into the new style.css
/*
Theme Name: Graphene Child
Theme URI: http://www.yoursite.com/
Description: Child theme for the Graphene theme
Author: Your name here
Author URI: http://www.yoursite.com/author/
Template: graphene
Version: 0.1.3.x
*/
@import url("/wp-content/themes/graphene/style.css");
/* Your modification goes under this line */ - You will only need to modify the values of the properties for the elements that you want to modify. There’s no need to copy and paste the entire style.css.
- Go to your WordPress Appearance > Themes admin page and activate the child theme.
You can learn more about using child theme at the WordPress codex page.
Tools for Your New Child Theme:
Use You favorite CSS editor making Your new Child Theme files eg.: style.css & functions.php or get this free CSS editor: Komodo Edit.
Use Your favorite FTP software making wp-content/themes/
graphene-child
catalog on Web server & upload of Your new Child Theme files eg.: style.css & functions.php or get this free FTP software: FileZilla.Kim
- Create a graphene-child folder in
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