Title: Child Theme needed?
Last modified: June 13, 2017

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# Child Theme needed?

 *  [ellienowels2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellienowels2/)
 * (@ellienowels2)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-needed/)
 * If using Cryout Theme settings with a theme (in this case Nirvana), do I still
   need to create a Nirvana child theme to protect customizations against future
   Nirvana updates?

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 *  [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-needed/#post-9327254)
 * The settings you choose via the admin area should remain when you update the 
   theme and this plugin, even without a child theme. Those settings are stored 
   in the database, so they should not be overwritten as part of an update. However,
   if you wish to make any other customizations beyond the settings available through
   this plugin, you should create a child theme.
 * Personally I recommend always creating a child theme, even if you just create
   CSS and functions.php files that contain nothing more than the minimum code called
   for in the WordPress [child theme creation documentation](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
   That way, you already have a child theme in place if you ever discover the need
   to add some additional customizations in the future.

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 * Last reply from: [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-needed/#post-9327254)
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