[wp-hackers] Safe location for "fallback" theme

Mike Schinkel mikeschinkel at newclarity.net
Wed Apr 21 03:35:56 UTC 2010


On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Stephen Rider wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:17 PM, scribu wrote:
> Removing Default from the themes directory entirely will just confuse people, *and* (I believe) will require different code to handle the child theme built off the Default in the different location.  (Or does the new "register theme folder" code handle child/parent themes in completely separate locations?)  Hackers get started by looking at what is there and making changes.  Let's leave the code as approachable as possible.

Maybe the "real" default theme should be a super, bare-bones theme that only let's people get back to the admin console...?

-Mike


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