I had a blast talking with everyone during our session today. I wasn’t sure what to expect with an open, Q&A format, but things never got dull for a moment. I hope I was able to answer everyone’s questions. If not, don’t hesitate to ping me on Slack or comment below.
Notes
Overall, things went great. Some of the topics we covered:
- What child themes are.
- The benefits of child themes: 1) safe theme upgrades, 2) unique designs.
- Post formats.
- Templates.
- Loading parent and child stylesheets.
- Pluggable functions.
- Theme options.
- Doing child themes the original way by design only (a la Sandbox and CSS Zen Garden).
Feel free to browse the full chat in the archives for the specifics.
For those who asked, here’s the Saga theme demo content. Just unzip and upload the XML file to your development install.
This Weekend
I want to make sure it’s clear: You are free to design anything you want this weekend. Start a full theme, just make a design, whatever. My design challenge is just one part of the larger whole.
If you’re interested in making a child theme though, I’d love to see it. I’ll personally work with you to get it up on WordPress.org. Be sure to read the original blog post to make sure you’re up to date.
Over the weekend, I and others will be available via #themereview on Slack for answering questions. Feel free to ping @greenshady if you have a question specifically for me.