This tutorial is not for everyone. Although you don’t need skilled developers to imitate, you need real attention to learn more about the way word press and themes work. If you work with some code and are not afraid to dirty your hands with theme files, welcome to board! This guide will learn how to use sub themes to customize the word press site as needed, but first… Let’s explain exactly why we use the strange thing of \
I solemnly swear that I will not edit the theme file. New word press users are interested in customizing with code. They often edit the files in the theme directly. This is absolutely forbidden. What’s up? One reason is that when you update a theme, WordPress redefines an existing theme as a new version of the theme. Why is this important? Imagine that you are using version 1.04 of the Challenger theme. header. Move the menu in the PHP file and click style. New CSS has been added to CSS. Then, version 1.05 will appear and a notification will be displayed on the dashboard.
v1. Header if updated to 05. PHP and style. CSS files are all Challenger v1. 05. They will not contain the same edits you created, so the job will be lost and cannot be re imported. Spending hours customizing can be quite frustrating. However, if you put customizations in the Challenger sub topic, the customizations will be safely stored in the sub topic, so you can safely update to version 1.05 without losing customizations. This will become clearer as the actual example deepens. Now let’s create a sub topic.
Although we won’t elaborate on how to create sub themes here, these are the basic ideas and fragments needed to start. Create an empty folder on the preferences desktop and start. Although you can name as you like, the standard naming rule is to use the topic name as a lowercase letter, followed by \
Style is a technically valid sub theme. To create a CSS file, you only need to create one. style. Create CSS file use the selected code editor to create a new file in the sub theme folder and name it style. Specify CSS. Style, of course. Add all CSS files to the custom site. WordPress needs to identify the sub theme as a valid theme, style. You must add the following stylesheet title at the top of CSS:\/*
Subject name: Challenger destiny
Template: Challenger
Introduction to the author
Version: 1.0
Author URI: https:\/\/www.competethemes.com
Description: used to customize the sub theme of the Challenger WordPress theme.
License: GNU Public License V2 or later
License URI: http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/gpl-2.0.html
*\/You can copy this exact title and use it for your own subtopics. You can rename a theme to one you want to customize.
The most important part is the \
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