[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28509: Allow themes specifically meant to be parent themes to prevent activation

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#28509: Allow themes specifically meant to be parent themes to prevent activation
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 Reporter:  nathanrice   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes       |     Version:  3.9.1
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nathanrice):

 Replying to [comment:22 Otto42]:
 > What you're describing is half-a-theme. Some set of code and functions
 that somebody can use to build a working theme from. Now, the way you're
 doing it happens to fit the parent/child model, but maybe another model
 would fit better.

 I don't necessarily disagree. If theme frameworks were officially a thing,
 I could get behind that. But what we have is Themes and Plugins. And from
 some preliminary work I did while considering moving to a plugin, it sure
 seemed like a lot of unnecessary work to do the conversion, not to mention
 making years of instruction null, and running the risk of the "plugin +
 theme" idea not being as intuitive as the current Parent + Child paradigm,
 which users seem to "get" without us having to do much in the way of
 explaining.

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