Replace Cloned Theme with Child Theme
If you're using a cloned theme, you'll need to migrate to a child theme to take advantage of performance updates in v26 and v28.
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Migrate Cloned Theme to Child Theme
If your website is using a clone of the theme, follow these steps to migrate to a child theme.
Bookmark this page to refer back to it as you complete the steps.
- Create a Child Theme making sure to use a unique name to easily differentiate it from the cloned theme
- Update your Theme Settings to match the settings for your cloned theme, removing support for jQuery and disabling the legacy code structure in the child theme
- Configure your Header and Footer to match the cloned theme
- Copy any custom templates from the cloned theme to the child theme
- Create new custom module(s) from the parent theme (clone to child) and recode your customizations
- Check the CSS and JS folders for customizations, and add all of the changes to the corresponding child.css or child.js files (do this instead of cloning any of the CSS or JS files from the parent theme)
- Use Content Staging to create blank staged pages using the new Child Theme templates
- Verify and test your new pages before publishing