Child Theme is recommended way to modify any free or premium WordPress Theme. If you use it you can modify any Theme file and make it possible to update theme in the future.

If you do not plan to modify theme files ( e.g. php or .css file ) you do not need to use Child Themes.

I. How to download MyHome Child Theme ?

1. Please visit your downloads page at Themeforest:

https://themeforest.net/downloads 

2. Choose all files & documentation

3. Unzip it and you will see myhome-child.zip file:

4. Please go Appearance > Themes

5. Click Add new

6. Choose your file

8. Activate the theme

II. How to use it for file modification?

1. CSS

Add any new CSS rule into your wp-content/themes/myhome-child/style.css file. It will overwrite the old rules in the myhome/style.css

2. PHP

You need to copy original file e.g. /wp-content/themes/myhome/header.php and paste it into /wp-content/themes/myhome-child/. This way new file will be loaded instead of the orginal one.

3. JS Files

JS files need to be dequeue and enqueue - you can read more about it here

We also present one example how to do it with MyHome: Child Theme how to dequeue and enqueue javascript (.js)?