Title: WordPress Child Theme Help
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress Child Theme Help

 *  [mnabeel87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnabeel87/)
 * (@mnabeel87)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/)
 * I built a website in WordPress with the paid theme. When I built the website,
   I was quiet new at WordPress and didn’t know anything about ChildTheme (BUT NOW
   I DO). So here is the problem:
    There is a new theme update avaibale and I want
   to update the theme, however, all my CSS has been associated with the current
   theme. If I update, all my CSS is going to disappear and I don’t want that to
   happen. What should I do in this case so when I update my theme, all my CSS stays
   exactly the same? Thanks.

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 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/#post-6215837)
 * Copy your customizations to the new style.css and functions.php files in your
   child theme before you update. Here is how to create a child theme.
 * The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so
   your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides
   in case you haven’t made one before:
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/)
 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/#post-6215839)
 * I find Child Theme Configurator very helpful:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=child+theme+configurator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=child+theme+configurator)
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/#post-6215841)
 * OK, I have never used that.. copy your customizations to a text file then add
   them to your child theme.
 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/#post-6215844)
 * Another possible option is to temporarily switch to a different theme altogether
   and then re-name the modified theme and then re-upload and activate an original
   copy of the modified theme and then use the files from the modified version to
   make the new Child Theme.

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 * [childtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/childtheme/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-child-theme-help/#post-6215844)
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