{"id":969,"date":"2015-05-31T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=969"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T23:39:57","slug":"wordpress-child-themes-with-child-themify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"WordPress child themes with Child Themify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to reduce some of the pain of managing theme changes in WordPress take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/child-themify\/\" target=\"_blank\">Child Themify plugin<\/a> which will create a child theme from an existing one with the click of a button. The &#8220;child&#8221; theme can then be styled to suit your needs and when there is a main theme update your changes won&#8217;t be overwritten.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/child_themify_button.jpg\" alt=\"child_themify_button\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/child_themify_button.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/child_themify_button-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That said, I updated one of my sites yesterday and the header template was overwritten to which I had to add in the custom code &#8211; my fault but the limit of child themes are you want to avoid too many template changes as they will conflict with updates in the parent theme.<\/p>\n<p>You can browse the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/browse\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest free themes on WordPress.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to reduce some of the pain of managing theme changes in WordPress take a look at the Child Themify plugin which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[105,145,144,42],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-internet","category-tips-tricks","tag-plugins","tag-themes","tag-webdesign","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}