[theme-reviewers] Child themes discussion

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

 not to mention that you cant do the proper link for it ;/ since it's an 
include locate_template / load_template file situation



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)" <philip at frumph.net>
To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Child themes discussion


> just an fyi the function for get_template_part utilizes more resources 
> then just a get_template_(directory/uri) especially if predefines made for 
> get_template_ are made ahead of time in the theme, if we're talking high 
> traffic sites it's really not a good idea to use get_template_part for 
> anything besides specific .php part files, but not good for .js / .css 
> loads
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Child themes discussion
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>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> So, are we saying that for Themes that are *intended* to be Child-Theme
>>> ready, they must use get_template_, rather than get_stylesheet_, in all
>>> instances?
>>
>> Nothing is ever that simple. :)
>>
>> Stylesheet functions always return the path to the active theme.
>>
>> Template functions *can* return the path to the parent theme, if you
>> have a parent.
>>
>> Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to use either one except in
>> specialized contexts.
>>
>> To get and include a PHP file, for example, the safest way is
>> get_template_part('file'). This does the proper searching for the file
>> in the child and the parent (along with handling the special file-name
>> / file fallback cases for get_template_part('file','name').
>>
>> You *can* use locate_template to just get the local path of a file in
>> the child/parent. A simple locate_template('file.png') would do the
>> trick. It only tries to load the file as php for the case of the
>> second parameter being true. This doesn't help if you need a URL.
>>
>> I don't know of a good way to allow image/css file overrides in a
>> child, since you need the URL of them. Maybe somebody else can
>> enlighten me?
>>
>> -Otto
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