Comments on: A quick word on WordPress Child Themes

By: Kel

Kel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:56:32 +0000

I like how Thesis does it too, however I’ve had no problem with Thematic and child themes. I brought this whole “future-proofing” themes thing up a last year with MimboPro’s vs. Thesis. http://prothemedesign.com/how-to/modifying-mimbo-pro-1-custom-skins/

Wasn’t the official WordPress way supposed to be Child Themes though, since with 2.7+ you can also bypass the actual PHP functions in addition to the CSS mods?

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:04:21 +0000

@Bowers: Yeah, essentially, the idea for having child themes simply mean to be able to edit your theme while keeping the “core” files or the original state of the theme, in tact.

@tadlock: exactly. separating users into two groups is ideal for this kind of situation. Users who are code monkeys, DIYs, etc. and users who are bloggers, CMS-illiterate, basically non-technical.

I’m sure once you jump into this framework, you’ll take what thesis does to the next level!

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:24:39 +0000

Touché.

I actually really (I mean really) like how Thesis does it. My next major framework/parent theme will incorporate custom functions and stylesheet files. The focus won’t be on child themes with it.

Basically, I’d like to split my users up into two groups:

1) Users that don’t mind using child themes and those that want to take advantage of Theme Hybrid’s child themes.

2) Users that just want to make some easy modifications without all this child theme mumbo jumbo.

By: Mauricio Bowers

Mauricio Bowers — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:01:39 +0000

Nice informative article. I suppose I’ll begin to get used to child themes after I grow more knowledge/experience w/ WP Framework. I think when you installed Framework on my computer, I noticed the difference in organization with my folder. Were those examples of such child themes?