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

[Emil Uzelac]

yes, header.php and footer.php could be different and also imported over to
Child Theme if one needs to. Sorry I did not answer this earlier.

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*Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac | E:
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> 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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> *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 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:
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>>> 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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