Moving Current Manual Edits to a Child Theme

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If you look at the code you will see what it does is it loads the parent stylesheet but also it includes the parent theme version number. This is very important but not a lot of people do it. The reason to include the parent theme version number is so whenever the parent theme updates if there has been any changes to the parent theme stylesheet then caching plugins, CDN’s and browsers know they need to update the file. This will help prevent any “broken” CSS when updating your parent theme.


Now, if you’ve already made your site and customized the parent theme incorrectly and you don’t have several free hours to sit around moving code from one file to another, you can always back up the current Country Email List version of your site onto a child theme. Once you’ve made the child theme folder, simply add copies of the files you’ve changed to it, then replace your WordPress theme with the one in the repository.



It’s not a perfect fix, but it should work. The trick is to make sure you don’t back up anything that hasn’t been modified, so you don’t end up accidentally overwriting the new code that the update will install with the old code. So you still need a thorough knowledge of what you customized – you can’t just copy things wholesale. It might even help to go through the files and remove as much code that isn’t yours as possible.

Backing Up Your WordPress Website
First, back up early and back up often. WordPress stores everything you’ve ever written or uploaded in their database, and they can suffer malfunctions for plenty of reasons. It’s very easy to lose an entire site to a server failure or corrupt database. Fortunately, backing it up only takes a few minutes.