Child vs Parent Theme
Hi there!
I recently installed the UberMenu plugin and they have assisted me to override BeTheme's menu via a pluggable function in the child theme's functions.php
This is the code they have put in:
if( function_exists( 'ubermenu' ) ){
function mfn_wp_nav_menu(){
ubermenu( 'main' ,
array( 'theme_location' => 'main-menu' ) );
}
}
I notice there has been a recent update for BeTheme and I am hoping you can answer the following 2 questions to assist with how I should update:
- Do I simply upload the new betheme-child.zip into Wordpress and the changes they have made to the functions.php will remain? Or do I need to paste this code into the functions.php every time I do a new install?
- Are there any differences between using the betheme.zip (parent) vs the betheme-child.zip in terms of having access to all of the themes abilities?
I'm pretty sure they mentioned to me that I could copy this code over to the parent's functions.php file and then use the parent theme, but I tried that and then was locked out of the account. I then had to re-upload the functions.php from the theme files into the ftp to get back in.
Hope this makes sense 
Cheers, Jenny
Comments
what you ask for, requires files customization what in reference to Item Support Policy is not allowed. So if you want to modify files and don't know how, you should contact with your web developer. But if you would like to know the differences between parent and child theme, please take a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes where everything has been explained.
Thanks!