[theme-reviewers] Child theme question

[Otto]

Hard to say without more specific details. But the easy way is for the
parent theme to be expandable through the use of actions and filters.

So for example, in the parent, in the function where it's adding the
customize stuff, you could do_action('themename_customize_whatever'); and
then the child could add it's own function to do more stuff, and hook it
into that action.

Same for any settings or options or arrays of "stuff". Run them through an
apply_filters call in the parent, and then the child can use that to modify
them before they make it wherever they're going.


-Otto


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Usborne <hello at edge22.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone, hope I'm doing this right!
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> I recently had my first theme added to WordPress.org.
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> I now want to begin releasing some child themes for it, but have a
> question about how to go about doing that.
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> The child themes will obviously have some CSS etc.. but it will also have
> some options changed in the "Customize" section of the parent theme.
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> Would it be acceptible to display a message to the user upon activation
> which would allow them to click a link to import some of the options into
> the parent theme?
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> If not, what's the best way for me to go about this?
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> Thanks!
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> Tom
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