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Theme updates: what to do when the developer adds something you'd like to incorporate into your child theme?

In the case of when a theme developer updates the theme you've made a child of, and adds an awesome feature in the update you'd like to include. In other words, add that to your child theme.

Possible? No need for a a-z step by step, just curious of the difficulty level. Thanks! BTW, this is a great course.

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

A child theme will automatically inherent any parent theme options so if you update the parent theme you should be able to use that feature in your child theme.