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

[emin ozlem]

Btw, is there a "theme territory" for plugins ? :P I agree that sometimes
theme devs "try too hard", to throw-in as much option/functionality as
possible within allowed territory, but after all, it's all done in good
faith. So they should be excused they ask questions like these every now
and then, even though we know you already have too much on your plate as
review team.

To quote Otto:

> should be about the "display" of the site. *Creating* a child theme
> isn't really about display, it's about organization and maintenance.
>

I agree with this one, the point is maintenance, but it would nice if it
was allowed. Also I am still confused how a "page-template" creator falls
into plugin territory. Yes it does provide an added functionality, but that
functionality only "displays" content, it's not any different than manually
creating page-highlights.php template and putting it inside the template;
it just automates the procedure. (AFAIK they are allowed btw arent they ?
page-custom.php files inside themes ?)

Thanks for your responses in advance


2014/1/22 Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>

> Never mind, no decision made :) Just looked over the previous emails.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Got it. So what was the decision about this again?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> The original reference is probably a good place to start:
>>> http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/epic/1.1.1/includes/theme-options.php
>>>
>>> (Look for the "one click Child Theme" code)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, that plugin isn't using the Filesystem API and so could
>>>> be dangerous on some shared hosts (none of the major ones though).
>>>>
>>>> It wouldn't be particularly hard to write a plugin to do this sort of
>>>> thing though. Pluginception has all the code you'll need for the basic
>>>> idea of it. Just rejigger it to make the theme files and directories
>>>> instead. Might be worth adding in a function to copy some existing
>>>> templates over to the child too.
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>> > Plugin is dated, but still out there
>>>> > http://wordpress.org/plugins/one-click-child-theme/
>>>> >
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