[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18258: Users should not edit upstream themes

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#18258: Users should not edit upstream themes
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 Reporter:  Tomer         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Currently, when users are entering the theme editor from the
 administration UI, they get the ability to edit the theme with very basic
 knowledge required. The downside with that that their tweaks will lost as
 soon as they update the theme or if this is WordPress default theme if
 they update the WordPress core.

 I purpose the following change – Users will be prompted with a message if
 they try to edit a message with an upstream link and presumably won't be
 able to edit the theme styles. Instead, they will get the opportunity to
 automatically create a child theme of the upstream theme with a default
 template which might contain theme metadata, and @include rule to add the
 stylesheet of the other theme.

 Making this will help promote the usage of child themes and will make it
 easier to novice bloggers to hack their themes. It is also better from the
 current implementation by extensions as it doesn't require runtime
 database queries to fetch the additional author stylesheet.

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