001this is not easy Graham coming to you with another video and today we're gonna be speaking about specifically parent and child themes a lot of people have asked exactly what these are and if you've worked with WordPress at all is definitely an option that you've seen thrown around quite a bit it's a term that's used quite often especially for any themes you find online typically a lot of these are actually child themes themselves that are set up from an existing theme online so to start off with here what is an actual child theme a child theme itself allows you to customize the existing theme without you're losing anything from the existing theme if you say were to update this online as it is very important to keep up to date with things to make sure
002for security reasons as well as because they introduce new features from time to time so it is very very important to make sure to keep them up to date by having the child theme there you make sure that any customizations yourself are kept whereas if you may change this directly to parent theme you would lose them any time you update them the customizations that you make if you make them to the door theme itself the parent theme or actually lost any time you decide to update the parent theme whereas when you modify a child theme and keep it as a child those changes are kept no matter how many times you update the parent theme updates are very very important with WordPress as they help not only introduce new features to the theme itself but
003will also help for security reasons is the most common websites are hacked for WordPress it's through out-of-date themes and plugins themselves you can have additionally more than one child theme setup at the same time which allows you to quickly change between different layouts as a site with the same overview being there each time you switch back and forth so that you can keep your customizations this is very handy for people that are using seasonal based sites because you can have one set up for each season and then just keep rotating between the layouts with very little work done after you've set up the initial layout itself you can just switch it all there and everything rotates across for you matically whenever you set up a child theme he does give you the ability of a
004bit of safety as well because if you do make customization to a child theme and end up accidentally breaking something you still have the main parent theme there to fall back on and can always switch it back to the active theme this is very helpful if you only have the one WordPress site to work on because then you'd only have the one live version of the site itself by switching this back to the parent theme you have something you can continue to show in the meantime while you fix whatever was going on with your child theme there are many child themes that are found online most actual themes you download or find from premium sites tend to be child themes themselves so it is something very often used within the actual industry itself and with
005WordPress in general there is more information about this on the WordPress codex their official site if you do want to find out more information about it and you can always set up a child theme at any point if you run into any questions or something you're not sure what child theme you can always go ahead and contact us for support as well and we can all pants the questions you have about it setting up a child theme itself isn't very difficult you can go through and have this done through the actual manual process or there are plugins available online paint will provide you more information later on with how to set that up and another video itself if there's any questions or anything about this please make sure to leave comments or concerns if you
006have any questions about setting up or running any kind of child theme you can always get in touch with us through our support be more than happy to help you out thank you [Music] you