Export site library to child theme

Hi there,

You seem to have some misunderstanding about child theme.

If you don't create custom PHP templates, you do NOT need a child theme.

All the theme settings/elements/CSS will be stored in the parent theme, they will not get lost during theme updates.

But if you really want to use a child theme, here's the instruction: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-child-theme/

Hi,

Thanks for your response!

Maybe I didn't explain well:

When you import a site from the Site Library, many things are imported to your Wordpress installation: images, css, settings, pages, contents, etc... Then you can delete what you don't need or add your new stuff.

Well, after that, I created new pages, new contents, added new CSS, some PHP hooks and templates, Javascript etc that I would like to move to a unique please (theme? plugin?) so that it's all together in a GIT repo.

This is why I thought in a Child Theme. As far as I understand, a child theme allows to create a theme that reuses everything from its parent, except the things you override (post.php, for instance). I think that this is exactly my need, I can create a child theme, reuse almost everything and move my custom code there. Is this correct?

So the question is: what is the best approach to do this? How would you move the code (I can ignore posts and media, this is just contents) to a GIT repo?

I hope I explained better this time.

Regards.

I can create a child theme, reuse almost everything and move my custom code there. Is this correct?

Correct, if you want to use a custom template like single.php, a child theme is required.

Please be noted that GP has block element - content template which allows you to create templates using blocks instead of PHP templates.

How would you move the code

I attached the link to the instruction which includes how to add a child theme after importing a site library template.

So CSS goes to style.css, PHP functions go to functions.php and add templates in your child theme folder.