[theme-reviewers] Child themes discussion

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

I agree with the child-ready themes and I think that's the jist of what Otto was saying, making sure things like get_stylesheet_ and get_template_ were used properly and such.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chip Bennett 
  To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org 
  Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Child themes discussion


  *Any* stand-alone Theme can act as a Parent Theme. 


  I hesitate to force Theme developers to facilitate/accommodate pluggable/hookable Child Theming. If they choose to do so, that's another matter, but we should not be *forcing* Theme developers to make all of their custom Theme functions pluggable ( ! function_exists() wrappers) or hookable.


  Perhaps a better implementation here would be to find a positive-reinforcement means to encourage child-ready Themes?


  Chip


  On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:

    I would say if the addition to 7) is added then the addition to 6) would less of a requirement to insure a theme is "child-able". Although best-practice coding is always a good thing to recommend.


    Cais.



    On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

      > 6) (if) a functions.php exists, it must be compatible with the latest
      > version of the parent theme


      On this note, it might be a good idea to start suggesting that all
      themes with functions.php files be child-able. By this, I mean that
      everything in the functions.php should be in a hooked function or have
      a if !defined / !function_exists wrapper around it. Some best
      practices could be drawn up.


      > 7) (if) parent theme is updated, all child themes must be updated within a
      > reasonable amount of time to fit with the current parent if applicable ?


      That a reasonable question: How to handle breakage. Parents can make
      radical changes that will break children. Maybe create a list of
      themes that are "designed to be parents"? Dunno.



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