Ever wanted to duplicate theme, or create theme, quickly easily from the safety and security of your WordPress Admin.
Have all the joy of the theme, but in theme.
Activate the plugin through 'Plugins in WordPress.
Check through the theme to see if there are any hardcoded references to the old them directory name.
There is chance that some themes will use hardcoded references to directory locations using the theme name.
CSS in the directory with one reference to utilize STYLE.CSS..
My point concern is, especially for those who may be unfamiliar, that the behaviour of WordPress is to first utilize files that exist in the CHILD theme directory regardless of the same filename existing in the Parent directory.
Hence, once Theme core parent gets updated, one's WordPress site will continue to load the now-antiquated files in the Child — files that were copied at earlier timeframe using this plugin..
In summary, once Child theme is created using this plugin, all future updates to the theme's parent will be ignored.
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