The reason to run a Child Theme is to preserve the changes you wish to make to a theme from the parent theme’s updates.
If you copied over the whole theme as a Child Theme then the updated parent theme won’t affect anything theme-wise on your site. You might want to consider running a slimmed-down child theme in that case.
Sometimes a theme change might deprecate or change a bit of code you might want to include in your Child Theme so it’s a good idea to look at the updated theme and compare items such as functions, CSS, and such but other than that I wouldn’t consider doing much to update a Child Theme.
If you are running a released (published) child theme then you’ll want to follow that author’s recommendations if they should then update the child theme but I can’t remember that ever happening to any child themes I’ve adopted.
I hope this clarifies the subject and answers your questions.
Hi and thanks for the reply.
Here’s the background. I bought this theme some time ago for a client and I updated the theme for theme as and when there were new updates using a child theme to preserve any changes made. I stopped working for this client and then I started working with them again. The theme wasn’t updated for some time when I resumed working with them. When i updated the parent theme it returned an error and I cant even view the site. I was then told I need to update the child theme for the site to work as per the instructions in my first post.
While I have some WordPress experience it is limited to basic stuff and I just need some guidance on updating it. Just wondering how I update the child theme as instructed.
