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Using a child theme and the “Customize” option?

By Tor André Sandum, 10 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 10 years ago.
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If I decide to use a child theme to change the text on some parts that are in the theme’s code, can I then use the “Customize” option for the theme? I have not managed to do that. If not, what is the best way to migrate to a child theme after changing a lot of the colours with the “Customize” option without losing my changes to the theme?

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  1. 10 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    The bad news is that, to my knowledge there is no way to move those options across. What I usually do is open the parent theme Customizer in one tab, then in another tab activate the child theme and open the child theme Customizer. I then manually copy each setting across. A mission for sure.

  2. 10 years, 11 months ago Tor André Sandum

    That is a way to do it, I don’t think it will take much time because many things are still stock for me. The only problem is that I did not seem to be able to use the Customizer at all in the child theme. Maybe I am mistaken. I am awaiting DNS-propagation at the moment, and will surely check if I can get it to work!

    Thank you for your reply!

  3. 10 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    All theme options and Customizer functionality should be the same.

    This would be a very basic child style.css example:

    /*
 Theme Name:   Vantage Child
 Author:       SiteOrgin
 Template:     vantage
 Version:      1.0
*/

@import url(“../vantage/style.css”);

    With the template name and import url being the two that matter.

    Let me know if it doesn’t come right.

  4. 10 years, 11 months ago Tor André Sandum

    Works perfectly :)

  5. 10 years, 11 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Super, glad that helped.

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