[wp-hackers] TEMPLATEPATH in child themes

Nathan Rice ncrice at gmail.com
Wed May 13 18:20:31 GMT 2009


Also, the same principle applies when trying to get the URL of the template
or child theme directory.

bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');
bloginfo('template_directory');

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Nathan Rice <ncrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> STYLESHEETPATH is what you want to use.
>
> TEMPLATEPATH points to the parent theme path because the parent theme is
> considered the "template" in the child theme style.css file.  It makes
> sense.
>
> Nathan
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> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Eric Marden <wp at xentek.net> wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I noticed that the constant
>> TEMPLATEPATH points to the Parent Theme even when you have a Child Theme
>> activated. Is this required for the Child Theme's missing files to default
>> to the Parent Theme's files, or just a bug in that TEMPLATEPATH doesn't get
>> updated with the child theme's path.
>>
>> Its causing me a problem, which I can work around with a symlink, but was
>> wondering if this is the expected behavior. Is there another CONSTANT that
>> would point to the child theme properly?
>>
>>
>> - Eric Marden
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