Customising in x child theme

[cathaloregan]

Hi, I’ve just purchased x and installed and activated the x child theme. MY question is, are edits that I make using cornerstone, e.g. to global css, applied to the child theme or the parent theme?

[mldarshana]

Hi Cathal,

Thanks for writing in! You need a child theme, when you want to extend some functionality on X theme by using your own customizations. In other words, child themes are used when you want to directly edit a template file in X theme. So that way, you don’t have to edit a parent X theme files. Instead, you copy a specific file into your child theme and add your own customizations to that file.

The other customizations like when you create a page, post and when you build a page using cornerstone and when you set some settings on Cornerstone, all those will be saved in the WordPress database.

Global CSS (X -> Theme Options -> CSS) also saved in the database and will be executed on the fly when page rendered in the browser. Alternatively, you can add your custom CSS into your child theme’s style.css file as well.

Hope that’s clear.
Thanks!