Comments on: Should Child Themes Be Listed on WordPress.org?

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:44:57 +0000

A big fat YES!

By: Child Themes in the WordPress.org Directory?

Child Themes in the WordPress.org Directory? — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:12:12 +0000

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By: Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:35:58 +0000

Leland, thanks for bringing some attention to the topic. Themelets is a great idea. Any more attention we can give to child themes the better.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:05:45 +0000

@Adam: There is probably confusion about parent/child themes among newer and older users alike, although if the child theme pages were set up something like this I think it could really cut down on the confusion if people new they needed to have a parent theme installed as well.

By: Adam W. Warner

Adam W. Warner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:44:31 +0000

Thanks for calling this out Leland. Theme frameworks and child themes should most definitely be included. However, some thought should be given to how they would be displayed. There is a lot of confusion among newer users as to what child themes are and what they do.

By: Leland

Leland — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:32:00 +0000

@nythemes: Interesting point. I guess we’re getting back to the old “average WordPress users can’t wrap their heads around the child theme concept” issue.

I can see why this would be a turn off to a lot of users, it would be nice if there was a choice though.

By: nythemes

nythemes — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:31:57 +0000

i think they should be included, as there are some really innovative child themes out there.

one minus point for themelets might be that the child themes add to the complexity, they no longer work as stand alone with wordpress they require the particular framework which now wordpress becomes dependent on. They are also more time consuming if you want to customize a themelet since you must learn the inner workings of the framework, even for simple mods and that can be a turn off.

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:37:43 +0000

@Keith: Yeah, like I said in the post. I don’t really expect them to list child themes designed for parent themes that aren’t already in the directory.

That way people could install a child theme with the parent theme all from the WordPress dashboard.

By: Keith Donaldson

Keith Donaldson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:50:59 +0000

Only if the main theme is on WP.ORG should the child-themes be, IMO