[theme-reviewers] Forking A Theme

Wed Sep 10 18:36:11 UTC 2014

GPL does allow you to keep as-is, modify and distribute, so you are all
good there.

If you are adding stuff and not changing the design and source that is
called extending (functionalities or design) and when submitting to
directory it needs to be as child theme (generally speaking, not
particularly tied with contact forms).

Which means that if I want to use Twenty Fourteen as my base theme I can,
but my design needs to be different from original work.

After all that is why we call them themes ;)

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Aadit Gupta <adiji2014 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> Just a question on the same line....I have seen a couple of themes which
> have used Twenty Twelve and Twenty Thirteen as their base theme/ code. The
> designers have added various design elements like theme options, CSS styles
> and other things like Contact form which do not come with Twenty Twelve and
> Thirteen.....So, if someone has to do this ...will it count as a Fork ?
>
> I am also thinking about the GPL license where anyone can use the GPL
> source code to create a new product under his name (not copyright).
>
> Thanks, Adi
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Do either or, all good!
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Fikri Rasyid <fikrirasyid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Emil,
>>>
>>> I thought it'd be better to discuss an issue with other reviewers before
>>> pointing it out to the theme author to prevent confusion. It appeared
>>> directly discussing it on the ticket would be better. Noted for future
>>> reference.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Made notes in the ticket directly!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Fikri Rasyid <fikrirasyid at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Edward,
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that it would be perfect if two authors work together on the
>>>>> original theme to make it compatible. I haven't suggested it tho, should I
>>>>> suggest it and pending the reviewing process of this theme?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the forking issue above, there are more things i'd love to
>>>>> clarify regarding forking a theme.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chip stated on this guideline (a bit old, tho)
>>>>> http://www.chipbennett.net/2011/04/20/a-guide-to-reviewing-themes-for-the-wordpress-theme-repository/
>>>>> that:
>>>>>
>>>>> *All custom Theme functions, constants, classes, global variables, and
>>>>> options are prefixed with theme-slug (or an appropriate variant).*
>>>>>
>>>>> However, due to the nature of forking the theme, there are lots of
>>>>> function prefixes and text domains that are still refer to the original
>>>>> theme. The issue would be:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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)? 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
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Edward Caissie <
>>>>> edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The argument of not being able to create a Grandchild-Theme is very
>>>>>> strong so from that aspect providing proper attribution to the original
>>>>>> theme is given the idea of forking a theme is fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As to this specific theme and forking it to be specifically
>>>>>> compatible with a plugin, I would expect there to be much more to the "new"
>>>>>> theme than just some plugin compatibility code ... has it been suggested
>>>>>> the two authors work together on the original theme to make it compatible
>>>>>> with the plugin then building Child-Themes as the forking author intends
>>>>>> would be more easily accomplished.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Edward Caissie
>>>>>> aka Cais.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Fikri Rasyid <fikrirasyid at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm currently reviewing this theme
>>>>>>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20060 and a theme
>>>>>>> @pseudoxiah made me aware that that theme is 'a fork' of another theme. The
>>>>>>> diff can be seen here:
>>>>>>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/pinboard/1.1.6&new_path=/clickhome-myhome/1.1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The theme author argues that the reason for him to fork this instead
>>>>>>> of creating a child theme is that he wants user to further create a child
>>>>>>> theme based on this theme and this theme is made to be compatible and used
>>>>>>> with specific plugin (
>>>>>>> https://wordpress.org/plugins/clickhome-myhome/)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I honestly think that it is okay to fork and submit a fork as long
>>>>>>> as the theme gives appropriate credit to the original theme. However, I'm
>>>>>>> still new at this and wonder is there any specific guideline about forking
>>>>>>> a theme and submit it to the repo?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fikri Rasyid
>>>>>>> http://fikrirasyid.com
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fikri Rasyid
>>>>> http://fikrirasyid.com
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>>>
>>>
>>> Fikri Rasyid
>>> http://fikrirasyid.com
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