[theme-reviewers] Option to create child theme from theme option

[Chip Bennett]

You're conflating two different things here - the second being completely
different from the first - and then trying to apply what I said about the
first to the second. That doesn't work.

Of *course* a Theme can have appropriate uses of custom queries. But those
custom queries would be known, not arbitrary: querying a certain category
term, or post_format term, or whatever, to display in some known,
Theme-defined way. Themes do that all the time, and doing so is perfectly
fine.

That's entirely different from what you were talking about before: custom
page template that allows the user to define *arbitrary* custom queries,
displayed in an *arbitrary* way. That's Plugin territory. Why? Because the
*user* is defining the query/relationship/manner of display of the content.
The output of that effort is something that a user would reasonably want to
retain when switching Themes (and nothing about that output is in any way
specific to the Theme).


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:56 PM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think "custom page template" could be out of option but "custom query"
> should definitely not qualify as PT. For example if you have a slider,
> widget or anything like that in your theme you'd definitely want to use a
> custom query to display certain posts in there.
> For example your theme has a custom "portfolio" styled display, and you'd
> want to show posts from "portfolio" category, or a selected category, cant
> you do that ? I havent checked all the themes, but i am pretty sure there
> must be themes doing that kind of thing.
>
> I dont know why are theme guidelines are so restrictive. I get the ones
> that involve "added functionality","modifiyng / adding content" ; since
> those would cause the loss off those functionalities or contents and would
> cripple number of plugins. But as for "displaying" of existing content
> differently, it should be more open.
>
>
> 2014/1/21 Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>
>> A custom page/custom query creator is *definitely* Plugin territory.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:47 PM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I think this shouldnt fall into plugin territory since there would be
>>> no content loss upon deactiivation. If we are to exclude every
>>> "functionality" from themes, what are the purpose of themes, just picking
>>> colors ?
>>>
>>> For example I was preparing a "custom page creator", you would choose
>>> from select boxes as such;
>>> I want to create a page that displays "posts | custom_p_type" from
>>> "cat1-cat2" ordered by"ID | date" etc... you get the idea.
>>>
>>> Creating page-templates are a pain for the average user. This
>>> "functionality" i am planning not only makes it easier; but also prevents
>>> data loss. Because the creator wont create new page-* files but instead it
>>> will use the default page.php file and get the query parameters from an
>>> option.
>>>
>>> Would that too also fall into plugin territory ?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014/1/21 Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>
>>>
>>>> This seems like plugin-territory to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Faishal Saiyed <
>>>> saiyedfaishal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am reviewing one theme and they give one section call *"One-Click
>>>>> Child Themes" *in theme option. using that setting i can create child
>>>>> theme by providing name.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will create that name directory in wp-content theme directory and
>>>>> create 3 files
>>>>> 1. style.css
>>>>> 2. screenshoot.png
>>>>> 3. function.php
>>>>>
>>>>> I feel like it is not part of presentation , it is a part of
>>>>> functionality.
>>>>>
>>>>> But i want other theme-reviewers suggestion on same.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Faishal Saiyed
>>>>> Web: about.me <http://about.me/faishal>
>>>>>
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