You’ve been running your WordPress site or an e-commerce site for a while and it’s been doing fine and meeting your requirements. But now, you need some customization or need to override some functionality of your parent theme. Its the best practice to use a child theme. What is a child theme in WordPress? A child theme is a sub-theme that inherits the look, feel, and functions of the parent theme. It contains some specific instructions to tell WordPress that this is a child theme and what the parent theme is. WordPress then uses the code from the parent theme in most instances but will override this with code from the child theme (if necessary).…