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Hi there! I just wanted to double-check that everything really is okay with my website because switching to the child theme/updating to the latest version of X worked out way better than I expected.
I had completely designed a website in the parent theme, didn’t even think about it at the time, and of course with the new update just realized my mistake. I backed everything up, exported my Customizer settings, and then uploaded/activated the Child Theme. At first, everything was still perfectly fine because I hadn’t updated X yet.
I updated to the latest 4.4.1 (?) I think at this time, version of X and everything is still fine! My customizer settings were automatically migrated to the new customizer global CSS area – nothing changed. This is great because I’m like 99.9% sure it’s running on the child theme and is updated fully but I didn’t expect it to transfer over so seamlessly. I know this sounds funny but did I do something wrong? Shouldn’t I have had to transfer over the old Customizer settings? Or did I not modify the parent theme enough to warrant an issue with the update?
Thank you!
Hi there,
Thanks for writing in!
If I understand you correctly, you had made all the changes/customizations in the Customizer, right? Customizer settings are stored in the database, so updating your themes or plugins won’t effect that. The problem could occur if you have made template customization to the parent theme files.
Child theme is only recommended when you want to make template customizations. For more information on it, refer to our knowledge base article on child theme.
Hope this helps and I’m glad that everything is working fine for you after the update. 🙂
Thank you!
Okay that does make sense thank you! Can I ask, what would be a few examples of template modification? In what instances would something like that be necessary – for example if I edited the functionality of the Recent Posts shortcode, would that constitute a template change?
Thank you
Hi there,
Thanks for writing back. Recent Posts is a Cornerstone elements that means the code belongs to the plugin. So you can’t change any theme template to change this. You need to add you own functions to functions.php on your Child Theme.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers!
