How to modify your theme safely using a Child Theme

Everybody likes to experiment with a theme and make it their own, but sometimes making deeper CSS changes can damage the theme, or a theme update will render all your changes useless, forcing you to reapply them over and over again with each update. In this tutorial we’ll look at how we can implement a child theme that lets you make changes to all the major files without risking damaging the base code of the theme.