[wp-forums] Repo Child Themes

[Christine Rondeau]

Good question. I never thought about that.

I think that forking the theme as Mika suggested is a good one.

I know that's what I did (with parent theme) when I started building
customer theme. I just changed the name and just added my changes to the
theme.

On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Mika A Epstein wrote:

> That was one of my early concerns about using Genesis (their themes are
> all children!!!!)
>
> Generally you either fork it (new name) or just edit CSS only via a plugin
> like the one in Jetpack.
>
> If you need new functions, you can make mu-plugins for that.
>
> esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
>
>>
>> (Also posted to the theme-review list)
>>
>> Generally speaking, when someone wants to make changes to a theme
>> downloaded from wordpress.org, we recommend that they create a child
>> theme or use a custom CSS plugin to avoid losing their customisations
>> when they update the main theme.
>>
>> However, we're starting to see people using child themes downloaded
>> from the Theme Repository and, in some cases, wanting to customise
>> these child themes. Assuming that updated child themes in the Repo
>> will generate the same update notices in the user's site, what would
>> be the best practice suggestion in these cases?
>>
>> 1. Customise the child theme but keep a local backup copy of all changes?
>>
>> 2. Create a new child theme by copying the downloaded child, renaming
>> it and then amending the new copy?
>>
>> 3. Something else entirely?
>>
>> Mel
>>
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