I added child theme support to the theme previewer for /extend/themes. The only child theme we have in there at present that I know of is this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mazeld , but now the preview works for it. Note that the parent theme of a child theme must also be in /extend/themes for this to work.
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Otto
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ocean90 6:18 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink |
Shouldn’t we add a hint to a child theme that it’s a child theme? Maybe with a link/button to the parent theme?
Otto 6:19 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink |
Long term, probably. One step at a time.
Otto 10:35 pm on January 27, 2011 Permalink |
Done. Parent button now shows up. Only on mazeld, of course, but it’s there.
Andrea_R 6:33 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink |
Other than buddypress child themes? I think they were a previous exception?
Otto 6:34 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink |
Right, buddypress is a special case. Nothing has changed there.
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 6:49 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink |
Awesome, caise, pross and chip are still hashing out the guidelines with us to make them clear to the end user, will keep you in the loop of course.
jeremyclarke 1:01 am on January 21, 2011 Permalink |
Great stuff!
Found some buddypress themes that don’t work:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/unplugged
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-colours
It could probably fail more gracefully than now (white screen in the popup). Ideally it could just output “can’t find parent theme in our repository”.
Luke Gedeon 2:54 am on January 23, 2011 Permalink |
…and the page title should read, “Are you my mother?”
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 10:46 pm on January 27, 2011 Permalink |
You know how the keywords are used to find more of it’s like, would having the keyword child-theme be good to have ? to help find more of it’s like ?