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Using a child theme and the “Customize” option?

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Tor André Sandum
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

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. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 7 months ago

    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. Tor André Sandum 11 years, 7 months ago

    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. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 7 months ago

    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. Tor André Sandum 11 years, 7 months ago

    Works perfectly :)

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 7 months ago

    Super, glad that helped.

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