Child theme and Atelier main theme update

[dm13]

hi Guys, i asked this in a different support thread but want to ask again as i dont fully understand it (beginner sorry). i have the Atelier theme installed. I have the Atelier child theme installed where i am adding custom CSS that you guys give me in other support threads.. this is so that when i update the main theme, it wont strip out the css i added. makes sense.

what i am confused with though.. when it comes time to update Atelier theme which i just did again tonight.. wordpress asks if i want to activate it. Now if i do, it will override the child theme right? and its not necessary.. but if i use the child theme, how do the updates from the newly updated Atelier theme get in there as the ‘things’ to use by wordpress? maybe thats a technical type question 🙂 i guess i just need to know that it works, and that each time i update Atelier, and it asks me if i want to activate it i dont need to do that step, and i need to keep the child theme as the active one – is that correct? thanks!

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Update of parent theme will not override the child theme’s code. So dont worry about it. You can update the parent theme without any issue.
Thanks
Mohammad

[mikefrisbee]

Same for me – I have 1.67 installed and I was going to update to 1.74.

I have a child theme installed and I got this message when I tried to update the parent theme: ‘Any customisations you have made to theme files will be lost. Are you sure you would like to update?’

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

If your changes are all inside the child theme, then they won’t be deleted but you have to check if your modified files/functions changed in the last version of the parent theme and copy the changes across ih there are any.

-Rui

[mikefrisbee]

Rui,

I can’t remember what modifications we made before we realised that we need to use a child theme.

Presumably we can update the theme and if we lose some of the changes, we can revert to the old theme?

Is there a failsafe way of checking the changes before updating?

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Just by comparing your current version with that original theme version so you can see what was changed, you have to use a software like Kdiff.

My advice:
1) Unzip the latest Atelier files to your computer and change the main theme folder from Atelier to Atelier_new

2)Then upload the Atelier_new to the wp-content/themes

3) After this you just need to switch the folder names to activate the last version, rename the current Atelier directory on the server to Atelier_old and rename Atelier_new to Atelier.

If you need to revert just change the directory names again.

-Rui

[mikefrisbee]

Thanks, Rui.

I could upload files but not a folder, so I did a workaround. I created a folder in wp-content/themes, copied the current Atelier folder into it and then updated the theme as normal, via WordPress.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Great. That will also work, the main difference is that with my solution the site will only be offline for a few seconds.
It that’s not problematic for you, then great.

-Rui