Comments on: Parent Child Themes

By: Justin Tadlock lance son “Themes Club”

Justin Tadlock lance son “Themes Club” — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:00:47 +0000

[...] même des thèmes. Personnellement, j’attends de voir ce que ça va donner avec impatience. On a pas mal entendu parler de ces thèmes “enfants” ces dernières semaines et il paraît que c’est vraiment quelque chose de nouveau… Je demande donc à voir [...]

By: ChaosKaizer

ChaosKaizer — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:13:00 +0000

one caveat: You cannot create “page template” with child theme scheme, WP only looks for template files inside parent directory.

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:58:51 +0000

going to have to seriously look into this. Very interesting, Thank You for the info.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:10 +0000

Definitely check out the Sandbox theme and all the assorted sub-themes. They’ve been using this parent-child scheme for quite a while. You install the sandbox theme first, and then any of the themed-sandboxes. Most of the subthemes are just CSS.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:47:59 +0000

The templates of a child theme needs to much html for me. Zen garden ist beautiful, but this is nothing for css beginners
And all designs at Zen garden are Child Themes.

Most of this themes - Sandbox too- are really *div layouts*
more div container than content

Monika

By: Hafiz Rahman

Hafiz Rahman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:21:19 +0000

The way I know it, child theme uses all its parent’s PHP theme files (thus its functionalities), while it only provides the CSS and images. If you take a look inside a child theme folder, you will only see a style.css file (plus optional images), without all the usual php stuff.

So like what Kristin above explains, all the designs for Sandbox theme are child themes of Sandbox: they use all of Sandbox’s functionalities, only providing different look.

By: Kristin K. Wangen

Kristin K. Wangen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:10:05 +0000

Actually all designs you can download for the Sandbox theme is child themes of Sandbox.

By: Snat

Snat — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:08:49 +0000

You are not the only one that didn’t know it existed but I agree with what Luna but other then that, I don’t really see a point.

By: CodeScheme » WordPress theme framework

CodeScheme » WordPress theme framework — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:27:03 +0000

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By: anonimo italiano

anonimo italiano — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:55:17 +0000

The inheritance is achieved by adding the “Template:” line in the css.
rtfm @ http://codex.wordpress.org/The.....tyle_Sheet

By: 2718.us blog - Child Themes to Upgrade-Proof Your Theme Changes

2718.us blog - Child Themes to Upgrade-Proof Your Theme Changes — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:52:37 +0000

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By: luna

luna — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:51:53 +0000

From what I read in the article and related articles it is best used for CSS and PHP changes to a theme so that if/when you upgrade the theme you don’t have to redo the changes you may have customized. http://themeshaper.com/how-to-.....-upgrades/

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:27:32 +0000

Thanks for pointing out this fine demonstration of how to achieve the parent-child theming which allows, among other things, to do more advanced customizing in the menu zone.