Updating Theme Without Losing Customizations

  • shizlist

    (@dnacannon)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    So I’m planning to update my theme (Flatsome). I am currently running a child theme with a decent amount of customizations. How do I update my theme to the latest version without losing all of my custom tweaks in the child theme?

    Do I install the the updated theme, create a new child theme, and copy and paste each customization one by one, hoping the themes are identical?

    There must be a better way.

    Cheers

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    When you update a parent theme, your customizations in the child theme should not be affected.

    If you are concern, backup before doing any action.

    linux4me2

    (@linux4me2)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    When I update a parent theme, I usually make note of all the files of the parent theme I’ve overridden in my child theme other than style.css and functions.php, then download all of them from the current parent theme to a folder on my desktop I call “parent-old.” Next, I update the parent theme, and copy the same files to a folder on my desktop called “parent-new.” I use Meld (a file comparison program for Linux, there are others for Windows) to compare the old and new parent theme directories. If there are changes in any of the files, I carry them over to my child theme’s override files if they don’t affect my modifications.

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