I have full access to the wp-admin area of a remote WordPress site. I would prefer to work in this UI the whole time and not use FTP.
I have successfully imported my custom child theme for an existing parent theme, from within the wp-admin area.
My question – From the wp-admin area, can I simply re-upload the same child theme zip package every time I have new changes that needs to be applied to it? Is this a suitable practice? Or will this cause issues?
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Method 1
Uploading a new zip package should work the same way as updating themes or plugins.
Please not however that it will only add new files and overwrite existing ones. If you upload a new package without some files (eg. unnecessary CSS or JS), these files will remain on server. So, it is good to take a look from time to time and do some clean up if necessary.
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