Title: Basic child theme questions
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Basic child theme questions

 *  Resolved [Kruble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kruble/)
 * (@kruble)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-child-theme-questions/)
 * Hi: New to WordPress…need to know a few things.
 * I understand that to make CSS changes that don’t go away during upgrades, one
   needs to either 1) use custom CSS or 2) use a child theme.
 * Question: if I’m already using a child theme (Lifestyle) do I need to worry about
   this or is it susceptible to upgrade as well?
    Can I re-name Lifestyle to in 
   effect create a “new” child theme?
 * question 2: Do php changes to a theme also go away during upgrades?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Kruble](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kruble/)
 * (@kruble)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-child-theme-questions/#post-7047657)
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