Theme Customization Best Practice

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  • April 7, 2014 at 5:19 am #11622
    Paolo
    Customer

      Hi everybody 🙂
      I recently bought the Epik Theme and I would like to make some changes mainly on CSS Styles and maybe a little bit in function.php and other php pages.

      I would like to know what is the best practice.

      If I change things inside the Epik theme itself and a new version is released I would lose the changes.

      I saw that for Genesis, and maybe in general, it is not good to create a “grandchild theme” (child theme of a child theme).

      So I found this article about creating a plugin to add additional styles and files:
      http://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/creating-grandchild-themes/

      Is this maybe a good solution?
      What do you suggests?

      Thanks 😉

      April 8, 2014 at 7:26 pm #11637
      Eric
      Customer

        Most people either create a custom css file and link to it from the main style.css file, or they add a custom section at the bottom of the style.css file. Either way will work fine.

        I haven’t tried the full tutorial on that link, so I’m not sure if that will work or not, but either of those methods should be fine.

        I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

        April 9, 2014 at 2:17 am #11643
        Paolo
        Customer

          Thanks Eric,
          I tried the plugin method and it seems to work fine. With it I was also able to overwrite the header setting in the function.php without touching the original one.
          😉

          April 9, 2014 at 10:55 am #11651
          Eric
          Customer

            I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the update.

            I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

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