New Genesis child theme or revise current Genesis child theme [closed]

I do agree with Aaron’s thoughts on “It all depends on the amount of changes required”.

Still. I would use a slightly different work-flow. Meaning:

  1. Keep my original child theme (old-child) intact.
  2. Create a new folder and copy the whole old-child content in it making an exact replica. Do NOT refresh your themes screen just yet (thinking: Let me see what happened) or you may be faced with the issue: “I did this and noticed it ended up being the active theme, which I thought was strange. “.
  3. Turn this to a new child (new-child) theme by altering the headers in the style.css file accordingly (just a couple of lines anyway “Theme Name”, “Version”). Now it is safe to refresh and take a look to your brand new Child Theme.
  4. Play around to your hearts desire. 🙂

This way you get both worlds: You get to have a brand new child theme and get to keep all the useful modifications you have already so hard worked for. And the best deal? You can try it out without loosing a single visitor when combined with a plugin like Theme Test Drive or even try them out from your Appearance->Themes screen.

You can even have 2 or 3 or 5 child themes with minor modifications.

Hope that helps, marikamitsos

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