When trying to make changes to a website, such as copyright information in the footer, a many people opt to edit their ‘parent’ themes directly. This creates a number of problems.
\nThe biggest disadvantage is that any modifications made to the theme in this way will be lost once the theme is updated. As a consequence, users either won\u2019t be able to keep their theme up to date (which is bad for security) or will find all of their customizations gone when they do.<\/p>\n
A much better idea is to use a child theme. This allows you to make any number of changes to a website without touching any of the original theme files.
\nIn this proposed session at WordCamp Kampala 2017, I propose we take a detailed look at what WordPress child themes are, how to create them and how to use them to customize WordPress websites \u2014 the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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