[wp-hackers] Style.css calls the shots?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

There is more then just the theme name being pulled from the style.css, 
there's the author, the author uri, theme URI and other information that the 
wordpress.org repository uses in displaying information along with the child 
theme's designation as Bill pointed out and tags, etc.. etc.. description 
yada yada yada



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Dennen" <dennen at gmail.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Style.css calls the shots?


>> Wouldn't scanning thru the folder names under the /themes give the same 
>> result?
>>
>> I'm not saying/suggestion, the current way is bad or anything. I'm
>> just trying to understand why the choice was made that way. Why do we
>> have to have template name definen in the style.css? There must be a
>> reason.
>
> One relatively recent phenomenon -- a theme's parent is designated in
> its style.css.
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
>
> ie.
>
> Template: twentyten
>
> It'd hard to imagine how the directory structure could do this without
> creating a jumble of sub-folders, isn't it?
>
> -Bill
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