Child themes lose parent theme customisations
Child theme creation does not carry over the parent theme's current settings and customisations.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 28 October 2019 · last reported 1 October 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who use this generator to make a child theme often find that the new child theme reverts to the stock version of the parent theme instead of keeping their current look and settings.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.