[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16395: Add 'Template Version' for use with 'Template' in Child-Themes

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#16395: Add 'Template Version' for use with 'Template' in Child-Themes
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 Reporter:  cais                        |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes                      |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):

 * keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh => has-patch needs-unit-tests


Comment:

 An alternative to having a global `Template Version` field is to declare
 the template version for each template file (e.g. by adding `@version xy`
 to each PHP file), similar to how WooCommerce does it.

 That way developers can check for the individual theme files that need an
 update instead of checking the whole parent theme when it gets updated.
 See https://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-check/ for a plugin that
 implements such a check.

 It is not a dependency thing though, just for versioning.

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