# Customize global header with child theme?

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-global-header-with-child-theme/81341>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-global-header-with-child-theme/81341 "2023-05-16T20:37:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EBaldoni](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/ebaldoni/32/198625_2.png) [@EBaldoni](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EBaldoni)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-global-header-with-child-theme/81341/1 "2023-05-16T20:37:39Z")

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Our client has a site with 40+ pages created with the Growth theme. Now they want a customized website header. The module says I can’t edit it without creating a child theme. Do I make the child theme and then clone the header module there to work on it (currently just working in the design manager)? Will it automatically be replaced globally or do I need to choose a new module once it’s edited in the child theme? My alternate path was to just create a new Global module and copy everything from the existing Growth header…then select it in the Global edit section when done updating it. Child theme seems like the better path, but I don’t want to mess up any of the pages already created, so I am alittle concerned.

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**Author:** ![alyssamwilie](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/alyssamwilie/32/2072_2.png) [@alyssamwilie](https://community.hubspot.com/u/alyssamwilie)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-global-header-with-child-theme/81341/2 "2023-05-17T02:11:25Z")

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Creating a stand alone custom module to use within the global header section of the theme would be the least amount of work.

If you create a child theme you’d have to re-do any theme settings changes made in the parent theme and go through every single page to update them to use a child theme template.

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**Author:** ![EBaldoni](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/ebaldoni/32/198625_2.png) [@EBaldoni](https://community.hubspot.com/u/EBaldoni)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-global-header-with-child-theme/81341/3 "2023-05-17T16:32:16Z")

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Thanks, that was what I was afraid of with the child theme.