Hey guys, so I tend to heavily edit themes to my needs whether it’s stylesheets, function additions or actually getting into the core files of themes (i.e. Newspapers wp-admin files) and since some of the deep files aren’t child-theme compatible I’m curious how you guys handle customizing the theme(s) and still being able to easily update the theme without having to re-do a ton of work?
Do most of you guys customize and then wait for major release updates and then worry about having to do touch-ups or?
I suppose I should add, I don’t mean adding new functions, but rather changing existing functions. I know I could just change it in the parent theme but obviously that gets overwritten when you update the theme.
anyone? :-/
hi,
the idea with the child theme is to have the same file structure but different functionality in those files.
but you need to stick with a theme version for this to work, if you update the theme then you have to update also your files functionality in case those files got change in the last update.
try to make plugins, witch are separated by the theme, you can use them with what ever theme you want and you can change the functionality only when needed.
your custom css can be added here: http://screencast.com/t/dmA7qlRdqL (this will be saved in the database)
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
Hey Radu,
So realistically speaking, with the way Newspaper is coded, it’s not fully compatible with child themes, correct? In other words, by default WordPress allows any and all parent theme files to be child themeable but without full support from the parent theme it obviously doesn’t work.
Just to make sure I understand correctly, if I wanted to edit a function in /newspaper/wp-admin/content-metaboxes/td_set_homepage_loop.php WordPress does have the ability to do /newspaper-child/wp-admin/content-metaboxes/td_set_homepage_loop.php but without functions being called conditionally there’s no way to do that.
In other words, is there absolutely anything >I< can do that will allow tweaks to those “core” files and not have to worry about updating the theme wiping out my changes?
hi,
nothing bets a test .
try it, then please paste your result here if you can so others can benefit from it.
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
