[theme-reviewers] Supporting Repo Child Themes

[Chip Bennett]

What Cais said. This is actually a good option for stand-alone OR Child
Themes.


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I generally recommend the second option first, but usually temper that
> with corollary of if its only CSS then a third party plugin to add custom
> CSS will work just as well (or better, in cases where the end-user is leery
> of creating a "new" Child-Theme).
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> For the vast majority of Child Themes, I would recommend forking (i.e.
>> option #2).
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:
>>
>>> (Also posted to the forum support list)
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, when someone wants to make changes to a theme
>>> downloaded from wordpress.org, we recommend that they create a child
>>> theme or use a custom CSS plugin to avoid losing their customisations when
>>> they update the main theme.
>>>
>>> However, we're starting to see people using child themes downloaded from
>>> the Theme Repository and, in some cases, wanting to customise these child
>>> themes. Assuming that updated child themes in the Repo will generate the
>>> same update notices in the user's site, what would be the best practice
>>> suggestion in these cases?
>>>
>>> 1. Customise the child theme but keep a local backup copy of all changes?
>>>
>>> 2. Create a new child theme by copying the downloaded child, renaming it
>>> and then amending the new copy?
>>>
>>> 3. Something else entirely?
>>>
>>> Mel
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