If you edit theme files, your changes will be lost when the theme is updated.
You don’t need any of the commented lines if you don’t want to use them.
You can still freely edit a style.css but only if you are using a child theme.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
We care.
We have experienced people coming back to the forums and asking why nobody told them their changes would be erased.
Imagine following YouTube videos for a month, modifying your theme’s files and then and then the theme’s author releases an update. Image how you would feel knowing that a month’s worth of work has been erased.
Like most things, taking shortcuts are going to cause headaches in the future.
Why do people on YouTube not recommend it? Who knows. That’s not a question we can answer.
We also emphasise it in these forums to prevent other people that may be using forum threads as guidelines from picking up bad practices.
Thread Starter
Daithy
(@daithy)
Wow, they are pretty valid points! I’m glad I asked, phew.
