[Support request] Do I need a child theme if only using custom CSS and a page builder?

[Emma]

I’m building my site using a visual page builder so I won’t be changing any of the code directly. I’m just using a page builder to add content and customizing the colors etc using the options in the wordpress customizer as well as adding a bit of custom css.

Will I need a child theme?

I’m changing the site quite a lot visually but without actually editing the files directly…

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks.

[Leo]

Hi Emma,

Quick answer would be no it doesn’t sound like you need a child theme 🙂

It’s only needed if you need to modify the theme’s core files. Or might be useful if you have lots of custom CSS.

See more explanation here: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-child-theme/

Hope this helps!

[Author]

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