[Resolved] Changes After Updates

[Nat]

Hey Tom,

Hope you’re having a great weekend so far. I do a lot of custom coding (CSS) on GP. I was wondering if those changes will be lost after both theme and WP updates. If so, what are the elements/parts that will suffer? Is there a list or something? Where can I find more about it?

Thanks,
Nat

[Tom]

Hi there,

If you’ve done your custom CSS in a child theme or using our Simple CSS plugin, then you’re 100% safe to update.

However, if you’ve made your changes to the core theme files, those changes will be lost as all core files are replaced when updates happen.

[Nat]

Yeah, all in the Simple CSS. Thanks!

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Kenneth]

Just so I’m clear, since I’m using Forefront I can update GeneratePress and none of my changes will be lost? But if I update both Forefront and GP then all changes are gone?

I have made all of my custom CSS changes into Forefront.

[Tom]

If you’ve added custom CSS to the forefront theme, updating it will lose those changes.

Instead, I suggest using our Simple CSS plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-css/

That way you can update your themes without the risk of losing custom CSS.

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