Title: Child Theme Customization
Last modified: September 19, 2017

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# Child Theme Customization

 *  [montanan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/montanan/)
 * (@montanan)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-2/)
 * It appears to me that the child theme has a fundamental problem. I have worked
   on a site and set all the customization settings. Then a problem came up that
   would require a child theme. The child theme is supposed to let you modify the
   parent theme without having to change everything. The flaw is that WP does not
   lookup the customization that is associated with the parent theme. If WP can 
   access all the files of the parent theme why can’t it also access the parent 
   themes customization settings?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-2/#post-9510848)
 * That’s a function of your theme; it probably stores theme options (set from it’s
   own checkboxes, etc.) in the database under the theme name. So, when you switch
   to a child theme, that’s a different theme. See if it has an option to export
   settings. If so, you can probably export settings while the parent is active,
   then import those settings after activating the child.

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## Tags

 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [customization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/customization/)
 * [parent theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent-theme/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-2/#post-9510848)
 * Status: not resolved

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