Thanks for the Video. Many advantages to using the Additional CSS from the customizer, in terms of transparancy. But isn't it annoying to update the Child themes once in a while? Many people don't talk about the issue of updating the Child theme (for example when the parent theme as big changes, like removal of features etc.)
A child theme stacks options/functionalities on top of the parent theme, so in general you don't have to update the child theme when the parent is changed. The child theme prevents your custom changes to be overwritten when changes are made to the parent by the theme dev and that has to be updated in WP. You could add all your custom CSS, PHP functions etc. just to the original theme, but then everything you did is gone when the theme is updated. There are plugins like CSS Snippets which you can use instead of a child theme, but if anything goes wrong, your work is lost as well. I write all my custom HTML, CSS, PHP, JS etc incl filters and functions I need for WP in VS Editor (which is a great free editor), save the files in a folder on my harddrive named like the domain I am working on and then add them to the child theme.
nice video. Clean, clear and a nice studio too.
Thanks for the Video. Many advantages to using the Additional CSS from the customizer, in terms of transparancy. But isn't it annoying to update the Child themes once in a while? Many people don't talk about the issue of updating the Child theme (for example when the parent theme as big changes, like removal of features etc.)
A child theme stacks options/functionalities on top of the parent theme, so in general you don't have to update the child theme when the parent is changed. The child theme prevents your custom changes to be overwritten when changes are made to the parent by the theme dev and that has to be updated in WP.
You could add all your custom CSS, PHP functions etc. just to the original theme, but then everything you did is gone when the theme is updated. There are plugins like CSS Snippets which you can use instead of a child theme, but if anything goes wrong, your work is lost as well.
I write all my custom HTML, CSS, PHP, JS etc incl filters and functions I need for WP in VS Editor (which is a great free editor), save the files in a folder on my harddrive named like the domain I am working on and then add them to the child theme.