A WordPress child theme gives the permission to use custom code on your site. You can see the changes live on child theme. By using a child theme guarantees that all your customizations will not be rewriting even when you update the parent theme.
To know more about it, continue to read on and learn how to setup your own child theme.
Why you need a Child Theme?
There are a few reasons why you should use a child theme:
- When you make some changes to the theme and meanwhile you got an update, then your modifications may be lost. So, to prevent from this, you should use a child theme as changes will be saved separately under the child theme.
- Using a child theme can speed up development time.
- Using a child theme is a great way to learn about WordPress theme development.
Where you can find a Child Theme?
Please download the full theme package from Themeforest, extract it and there you will find litho-child.zip and that is child theme.
How to add Litho Child Theme?
You can add the Litho Child theme by navigating to the Admin panel > Appearance and choose Litho Child.
To know more about theme installation, click here.
Please refer steps mentioned in the below mentioned section to add litho-child theme Install and Update > Install litho Theme.
Note: Here you will upload litho-child.zip instead of litho.zip, Parent theme(litho) must be installed before activating the child theme(litho-child).
For other useful documentation on child theme, kindly click on below links: