[wp-hackers] child themes of child themes (grandchildren)

[Kirk Wight]

So what's Crystal again? A managed theme based on Genesis, or a child theme
of Genesis?..

On Friday, November 9, 2012, Mika A Epstein wrote:

> I don't know if they're official by any means, but I started looking into
> the different kind of themes and came up with these:
>
> A Theme: TwentyEleven etc.
>
> Stands on it's own but you can make a child if you have to.
>
> tl;dr: The 'traditional' theme that everyone thinks of.
>
> A Theme Framework: _s, Bootstrap, Hybrid.
>
> Used to build a parent theme off of. No one actually uses the theme as a
> theme on it's own without forking and adding in their bells and whistles.
> These are generally turned into full-blown themes, and use the normal
> parent/child relationships. The framework itself is not a stand-alone
> theme, however, and the person who builds their parent theme off a
> framework is responsible for updating their theme when the framework is
> updated.
>
> tl;dr: You use a framework to build a theme.
>
> A Managed Theme: Genesis, Thesis (I'm missing some, I have a longer list
> on my other computer)
>
> These themes are not intended for children themes! Everything that you
> should be doing is within the WP Dashboard. All CSS tweaks, and even
> functions, can be added there-in. Sometimes these are just parent themes
> that you don't make children off of, ever, and others are children
> themselves of a framework. The best ones have a way to export your theme
> settings. To make things easier, you'll find a lot of plugins that do what
> most people want, and they never need to edit code.
>
> tl;dr: Don't touch the theme code files.
>
> ---
>
> Obviously there's some crossover with these, but I tend to slap those
> labels on the 'top' level theme, so since the Genesis parent theme is
> clearly managed, it's a managed theme, even though it acts like a framework
> in some respects.
>
> When a managed theme doesn't meet your needs, then you have the wrong
> child and need to either fork the closet one to suit your needs, or build
> your own.
>
> Mike Schinkel wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Mika A Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Genesis is a managed theme, vs a 'traditional' theme framework.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's the first time I've heard such a named distinction. To ensure I
>> and maybe others don't misunderstand would you be so kind as to define
>> those terms and then compare and contrast them?
>>
>> -Mike
>>
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