[FortWayneATA]

I made a rookie mistake four months ago when I designed four web sites with Catch Adaptive Pro and made heavy use of the customization and custom CSS menus. The mistake was, I didn’t set up a child theme day one. Now, I need one. I’ve set one up on my test platform, but my problem is that none of my custom settings transfer automatically to the child. Is there a way to do that?

[FortWayneATA]

I’ve poked around the database some and I know there’s a record in the wp_options table prefixed “theme_mods_”. The child and parent themes each have their own record, and I have experimented (unsuccessfully) with transferring/copying the parent theme record so that the child theme_mods_ record has the same option_value as the parent. I can make minor tweaks to the option_value field (like the name of a font for instance), but the wholesale replacement of the child mods with the parent mods results in the whole option_value field being blanked out.

[Sakin]

@FortWayneATA: This is more of technical issue and is not done automatically. So, you need to decide on Child theme or Parent theme when you start your development process. I am not at SQL expert to give you help on this. So, you might want to check this core ticket thread https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27177

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