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Child theme

parent and child iconA child theme is the name given to a WordPress theme which “inherits” its styles, templates and functions from a parent theme.

The parent theme and the child theme must both be present in the wp-content/themes directory, and the child theme is the one which must be activated.

If you have installed a theme from the WordPress themes repository, or purchased a premium theme from an online marketplace such as ThemeForest, it is always advisable to correctly configure a child theme in order that any future updates to the (now parent) theme will not copy over any customizations you make.

Most of our WooCommerce tutorials, for example, will assume you are able to place code snippets into the `functions.php` file in your theme. If you did this in a theme without using a child theme, you’d find, on update, you lost your snippets… and therefore the cool feature you’d make for your store!

Location of functions.php in WordPress

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This question was asked of us recently, after a tutorial we posted, so I’m putting this out there in case anyone else wants to know…

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The Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WordPress

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WordPress is used by 30% of websites – even in a sample of the top million websites. It’s popular and it works. In order to…

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How To Remove Related Products from WooCommerce

The code snippet below will allow you to remove related products from your WooCommerce store, in case you had everything in your store setup just…

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Remove “box” from around links and menu items in WooCommerce Storefront

Are you looking to take out the outline (dotted or otherwise) from around menu (and other) links in your WooCommerce store – these links show…

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How to Remove a Tab from WooCommerce

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Have you ever wanted to remove or disable a particular tab, or tabs, from your WooCommerce store? The snippet below will allow you to do…

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Code to hide content on the front page of WordPress

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Another day, another little WordPress tutorial for you guys. This time, I’m posting a how to for those of you who have rolled back the…

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How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

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Shortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the…

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Where to put Snippets in your WordPress Functions.php File

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Every so often, on the WordPress.org forum, or some blog comments thread, or on Twitter, or some other place, we see helpful open source practitioners…

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How to Automatically mark WooCommerce orders “Complete” on receipt of payment

Ever wanted your WooCommerce orders to be marked as “complete” straight away – for example if you never need them to be marked “processing” (maybe…

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WooCommerce Tutorial – Add Additional Shipping Weight to Cart Items in a Shipping Class

Today’s WooCommerce Tutorial contains some fairly high level code which will allow you to do something really specific, that can help with getting your pricing…

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