Thord Daniel Hedengren - Smashing WordPress_ Beyond the Blog-Wiley (2014)

great idea. In a way, the child theme concept is

all about moving the individual styling for the

sites that you create another step from the code

because the child theme will consist mostly of

visual enhancements and changes to the parent

theme. This means that the user can update the

core theme without breaking anything.

This chapter is dedicated to the brilliance of child

themes and how you can use them effectively for

your own projects.

AS A WORDPRESS designer, one of the things

that you need to keep in mind is the addition of

new features with new versions of WordPress,

and in turn the deprecation of old ones. A theme

created a few years ago will probably still work,

but it will definitely be lacking some of the

functionality of more modern themes. And the

question is, will it still work in another few years?

Backward compatibility in WordPress is pretty

extensive, but there is a limit.

Compatibility is one of the many reasons why

you create core themes to build on and why

using child themes to extend them is such a

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