[theme-reviewers] Forking A Theme

[Otto]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Fikri Rasyid <fikrirasyid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it okay to leave function prefix it as is or should one change the
> function prefix to its unique theme slug when forking a theme (and
> submitting it to the repository)?
>

Change all the prefixes.


I'm about to ask the same question about the text domain but it is super
> obvious that text domain should be unique to the theme slug
>

The text domain should be *identical* to the theme slug.


A fork should be sufficiently different so as to justify the fork. If
there's not enough differences, then it should just be a patch for the
original or added to the original.

I mean, you could fork WordPress and rename everything to "ForkPress", but
if you didn't do anything more than that, you've kinda wasted your time. A
"fork" is creating a new and unique work. It should be unique enough to
justify that effort.

-Otto
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