Child Theme

TEST – block theme builder plugin

Dan Knauss

August 3, 2022

This sounds great. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'd love to hear from you if you have. This tool basically saves your current settings and layouts to wrap them up as a theme or child…

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project

Courtney Robertson

July 27, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Getting Ready for PHP 8.2, Rebooting Feature Notifications, Additional Custom Template Options, and Renaming Full Site Editing.

There’s a lot happening in WordPress…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

There’s a lot happening in WordPress Core, including some tweaks that won't make the headlines. For example, here's a real gem for people using WordPress Multisite: the addition of an indicator to make it clear "whether a theme is a…

Kjell Reigstad over at ThemeShaper shows…

Dan Knauss

December 3, 2020

Kjell Reigstad over at ThemeShaper shows how to build a single-page block-based theme. He describes the experience positively: "This exercise made me truly excited about the future of theming. It took very little time to assemble the boilerplate necessary to…

One theme to rule them all?

Dan Knauss

October 15, 2019

BusinessDesign

What does the future hold for WordPress themes, for theme developers and end users? Are we ready for a single master parent theme?

Here’s a WordPress plugin that can…

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2019

Here's a WordPress plugin that can generate a child theme based on the Genesis Sample theme with WP-CLI.

The WordPress theme review team is…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

The WordPress theme review team is adopting a new policy: Trusted Authors "will need to review [one] ticket a month to be able to have their themes set live." 🎫 Some folks have chimed in on this policy, including Justin…

Now for something somewhat different: the Nineteen…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

Now for something somewhat different: the Nineteen Eighty-Five theme — a child theme for Twenty Twelve — is a cute 80s throwback, thanks to the NES.CSS project.

Mika Epstein ran into the perennial…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Mika Epstein ran into the perennial challenge of Genesis child theme users who customize their theme code. Genesis themes are all child themes for the Genesis Framework, which you shouldn't modify. Mika's solution was a grandchild theme plugin to keep…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

This might not be news to…

March 31, 2016

This might not be news to some, but I recently discovered Automattic has provided some tools for theme builders. Also, they've redesigned Themeshaper again with the nicest Twenty Sixteen child theme I've seen yet.

A problem with the theme customizer and child themes

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

In response to the recent change to require the use of the customizer for theme options, Puneet Sahalot brings up an issue with the way saving options works by default when using the customizer: To use the Live Preview feature, we…

Inherit customizer settings between parent and child themes

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

I found this plugin today, when I had a situation come up where I needed to convert customizer settings from a parent theme to a newly installed child theme. This isn't my first go at this. In fact, I think…

Layers, by Obox, introduces a beautiful page building interface

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

DesignPlanet

Layers is the latest WordPress theme with page building as the core feature. Obox has made a heck of an effort to ship 1.0, and while I have some issues, I'm incredibly impressed with the overall user experience. I think Obox has created something that's worth checking out, though I think this market has plenty of maturing to do yet.

I have x and y, I just need to…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

I didn't expect to answer a question on Quora today. Most days I'm just annoyed by their emails. But today a question caught my eye, purely because I was curious what the answers were. Here was the question: I need…