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Shaun Glassman
6,496 PointsWooCommerce templates & child themes -- modifying woocommerce in main theme and child theme
I'm assuming this is OK, but I want to get everyone's thoughts.
Let's say you are using a premium theme that customizes woocommerce templates.
Let's say I create a child theme for that premium theme. If I change some woocommerce templates in my child theme & leave others for customization in the original premium theme, would I run into problems? If WordPress logic set-up to look at woocommerce updates in my child theme, then look at templates in the parent theme, and then use the rest of the templates from WooCommerce?
1 Answer
Erik Schultz
16,232 PointsI haven't done this with child themes personally but if you want to alter woocommerce templates then you want to create a new directory in your theme's (or child theme I would expect) named woocommerce and copy the files you want to edit from the woocomerce plugin. Go to the woocommerce plugin and look under the templates directory and grab what folders/files you need and copy them into the newly created woocommerce directory in your theme (child-theme) directory.
This shouldn't cause problems when both the parent theme or woocommerce plugin updates.