[wp-testers] editing child theme feature?

Andrew Nacin wp at andrewnacin.com
Tue Jun 22 02:45:26 UTC 2010


My Google Summer of Code project is to revamp the theme editor,
providing better support for child themes and also revisioning of
files.

I will absolutely keep this in mind. In fact, improving this is
already on the task list.

Here's the repo:
http://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2010/nacin/


On 6/21/10, Christine Evron <christine at tstone.biz> wrote:
> When working with a child theme in the edit themes page - it's a bit
> confusing having all the files in use under templates instead of just the
> files residing in the child theme folder. It looks like the select theme to
> edit isn't filtering the files correctly.
>
> I loaded my child theme files up a couple of weeks ago. Today I decided that
> I'd come up with a brilliant change to the footer file. It didn't bother me
> that I hadn't initially modified the footer.php file.  I charged ahead with
> my changes and then decided I really wanted to see how 2010 had handled
> something, so I reactivated 2010. Lo and behold, my footer had made it's way
> into 2010. Not what I think was intended.
>
> It looks like trac ticket 12716 (march 26) speaks about this but it also
> looks like the select theme to edit dropdown wasn't there when the ticket
> was filed.
>
> Regards,
> Christine
>
>
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