Should I be using Toolset Starter or Toolset Starter Child?

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Tagged: Customizing Toolset Starter, Toolset Starter Theme, Using Toolset Starter

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Last updated by Christian Cox 7 years ago.

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November 18, 2017 at 6:58 pm #590891

jonB-5

I'm beginning a new site build and would like to know what the best practice would be in terms of theme selection and use.

At the very least I will be making changes to functions.php in the theme directory, does this mean I should user the Toolset Starter Child Theme and make the changes in there?

Thanks in Advance

November 19, 2017 at 9:21 pm #591038

Christian Cox

Hi, sorry for the delay in response. It's always best to use a child theme if you intend to make any customizations to theme files like functions.php to add custom shortcodes, modify any template PHP files, enqueue custom CSS or JS files, etc. If you used the parent theme and made those changes directly in the parent theme's functions.php file, updating the theme to a new version would overwrite those changes. So please install both the parent and child theme, then activate the child theme for best results. More information about WordPress child themes here if you're interested:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes