Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have built quite a number of
wordpress sites and have worked frequently with the HTML5 reset
theme.  My workflow has been to simply edit the files in the
theme because I often use quite a bit of custom CSS, php and
custom wp_query loops etc. In the end, the theme is really quite
drastically different from the original HTML5 reset theme.
However, I am wondering if there is a particular reason I should
be creating a child theme instead? I find that I am doing so
much customization that to me, I only really use the HTML5 reset
for its basic header, footer and html structure overall. I'm not
entirely sure how I could really implement a child theme and
manage enough customization.  Thus my question is – as a best
practice, should I still be using a child theme and basically
have so many of the same files overriding the parent that it's
not even really necessary?  To me, I can only see child themes
as a way to customize the parent but still keep the majority of
the look/function the sam