Noob question about child themes and updating

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  • Avatar: ebookman
    ebookman
    Participant
    August 12, 2015 at 08:46

    I’m building a new site from scratch using Woopress and am somewhat new to WordPress in general, so I wanted to check if I have understood this correctly:

    As long as I don’t do some manual editing in the actual theme files I won’t have any trouble when updating the theme to a new version?

    Widgets, sidebars, Visual composer pages an so on should remain intact, right? What about translations done in WPML?

    3 Answers
    Avatar: stan
    Stan Russell
    Participant
    August 12, 2015 at 09:07

    Hello ebookman,
    you are right. Theme settings and translation files are stored in separated files and will not be overwritten on normal theme update.
    If you will need to edit any of theme resource files – please do it in child theme: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Regards,
    Stan Russell.

    Avatar: ebookman
    ebookman
    Participant
    August 12, 2015 at 09:09

    That’s great – Thank you for the quick answer!

    Avatar: Jack Richardson
    Jack Richardson
    Support staff
    August 12, 2015 at 10:20

    Hello,

    You’re welcome.

    Best regards,
    Jack Richardson.

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