Migrating a modified Parent theme to a Child theme

[harukagnd]

Hi there,

I have been modifying the Neighborhood quite heavily and in hindsight realise that I should have started modifying the theme with a Child theme instead. Do you know how I can migrate a heavily modified Parent theme to a Child theme of Neighborhood?

I’m not sure how to go about this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

james

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

Unfortunately there’s no easy way to do it, you will just have to remember the changes you made and make them to the child theme instead

– Kyle

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Unfortunately it doesn’t exist any easy workaround, That’s that in any massive theme parent change.

You to check all the changes you made, if you changed functions that use prior to the function declaration the function_exists method (function_exists('function_name')) { you can copy those functions and paste them inside the functions.php of the child theme.

Other files like the ones in the root directory you just have to move them to child theme directory.

Other files that are deeper in the directory structure and are included in other files, you should also copy the file that call’s the second one so it can call the one in the child theme and not the parent one.

-Rui

[harukagnd]

Thanks for the advice.

Will Neighborhood’s Import/Export functionality help at all for the migration?

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

No, that’s only for the theme options those are stored in the database and are active with or without the child theme.

-Rui