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Child theme question

Discussion in 'Ask Pre-Sales Questions' started by Licheng, Dec 30, 2019.

  1. Licheng

    Licheng New Member

    I just purchased Elegant themes, and want to kick off my site building in a quicker way. I just came across your company with a good feeling of in the right place. thanks

    I have two questions that Can I change the child theme name in the source code? I want to change it to my company name/domain name. to prevent my business competitors from knowing more about my site, thanks

    and on this page: https://diviultimate.com/, #1 is a magzine, it is just a blog list page layout, to display posts, not have to be a seperate website, am I right? thanks
     
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  2. Divi.Help Pro Support

    Divi.Help Pro Support Administrator
    Staff Member

    Sure. The change the name of the child theme, you just need to change it in the child theme style.css file.

    But in the website backend settings, it will still show our name. See screenshot below:

    upload_2019-12-30_20-26-0.png

    #1 magazine is just a premade layout built with blog modules + custom CSS.

    Just add a new page > load the magazine premade layout > add new blog posts > adjust the filter & offset of the blog module settings > done.
     
  3. Licheng

    Licheng New Member

    thanks,
    backend is not a problem, since we are using by ourselves. having several more questions as belows:

    1. Changing the child theme name in the source codes has no affection with future Divi update? and will the child theme possibly conflict with the Divi or not?

    2. Is there any traces of “Divi” or "Elegant" in the child theme source code? that we can detect it is using DIVI child theme?(like using: wpthemedetector.com/)

    3. Can I use the #1 magazine page layout with other child themes from other companies?

    4. If the child theme is done, can we delete the divi-ultimate plugin? or have to leave it active.

    Many thanks
     
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  4. Divi.Help Pro Support

    Divi.Help Pro Support Administrator
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    Some correction for my previous post. Changing the name in child theme style.css only affect the backend name in Appearance > Themes.

    In your source code, you will still see something like this:
    Code:
    <link rel='stylesheet' id='child-theme-css'  href='https://diviultimate.com/wp-content/themes/Divi-Ultimate/style.css' type='text/css' media='all' />
    **To change the wording Divi-Ultimate, you will need to change the child theme folder name.

    As you know, our child theme has a assistant plugin: Divi Ultimate Plugin. You will need to keep it active at all times. But you will see something like this in the source code:
    Code:
    <link rel='stylesheet' id='divi-ultimate-plugin-main-css-css'  href='/wp-content/plugins/Divi-Ultimate-Plugin/css/main.css' type='text/css' media='all' />
    **To change the wording, you will need to dive into the plugin divi-ultimate-plugin.php file to change it, which is not recommended.

    And none of the above will affect future Divi update.
    Yes, there will still be Divi in the source code. To hide it, you will need something like this: https://divi.space/product/divi-ghoster/
    Basically, our child theme is basically a blank child theme for you to make edit on. All our functions are added in the assistant Divi Ultimate Plugin. In other words, as long as Divi Ultimate Plugin is installed, then you're good to go. Meaning you can use it with other child theme, but whether it could conflict with other child themes, I couldn't say for sure.