Native child theme is the perfect solution for the customers who want to modify the Native theme files or organize custom CSS and keep this changes after them updates.
The installation of the Native child theme is run the same as the main theme. More details can be found in this post.
- Navigate to
AppearanceThemesin your WordPress admin dashboard. - Click Install Themes and click on the Upload button.
- Select dfd-native_child.zip file you extracted from themeforest-19200310-native-powerful-startup-development-tool.zip file and click the Install Now button
Now that you have the child theme active, you can begin to add your custom css into the child theme style.css file via Appearance Editor.It is important to keep the full directory of the modified file as to those in the parent theme (e.g.: if you’ve modified the file in inc/actions.php, the child theme should contain the inc folder with the actions.php file inside).
We recommend you to visit the WordPress official documentation as well following this link.
In order to avoid errors, it is important to remember, that if you have any modified PHP, JS or CSS files included into Native child theme, it is necessary to keep them updated in accordance with the Native theme updates release.