[theme-reviewers] Best way of warning people before upgradeing

[Emil Uzelac]

Absolutely, children can use parents settings.

See:

   - http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
   - http://themeshaper.com/2009/04/17/wordpress-child-theme-basics/
   - http://themeshaper.com/2009/05/25/action-hooks-wordpress-child-themes/

I believe that you can use, but I am not 100% sure.


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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Emil,
>
> Just looking at that picture that you linked to, is that only for plugins
> or can it be done on themes as well? That is what I'm looking for :D
>
> In regard to child themes, can that use all the settings from the parent
> theme? And can the header.php and footer.php file be completely different
> from the parent theme's file?
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Child Themes should be the answer to all this and if I were you I would
>> make that your number one priority and letting know your users that in the
>> order to keep their "edits" Child Themes are the only way to preserve that.
>> Take a look at http://chrishajer.com/wordpress/upgrade-plugin.png and see
>> what they have done with this, maybe you can do something similar.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emil
>>
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>> *Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
>> emil at themeid.com | http://themeid.com
>> Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I just submitted an update for my theme for approval and I'm worried
>>> about people upgrading and losing any file edits that they may have made.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to warn people in the wordpress dashboard that they should
>>> make a note of any changes that they made and that they will need to put the
>>> changes back in after the upgrade?
>>>
>>> I've made a post on my blog and forum about it, but not everyone go over
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Daniel Fenn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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