Hello,
I am not a wordpress pro. But from trying to administrate my shopsite I always thought I have to make a child-theme to prevent layout changes and be able to still use the newest bugfix versions. So I went this way as also suggested by you.
Now after updating to the newest version my layout I made significantly changed. For example my highlighting color changed from orange to green. The fonts changed and everything is aranged differently now.
Maybe this is a standard issue of wordpress but possibly you can help me and tell me how I can prevent this in the future. I am really, really afraid to update now but I don’t want to miss any security updates. As it took very long to make the design changes.
I think the update was from 3.x to 4.x. What do I have to do to prevent that in the future?
Thanks