Activate Parent / Core Theme but restrict activation?

  • Resolved housebg

    (@housebg)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    I’m using the Headway framework to develop themes for my multisite network. I was planning on building child themes, and I’m wondering if there is a way I can make the base/parent theme available network wide but not give the individual site users the ability to activate it?

    I just want them to be able to activate one of the child themes, not the main parent theme. Is this possible?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    12 years, 2 months ago

    ‘Fraid not. When you activate a theme in the network, it’s activated for all sites. Child themes are the same as parent themes in that regard.

    I think that enabling just the child theme and not the parent theme may accomplish what you want partly but I haven’t tried that myself (yet).

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Yes.

    Go to the themes settings on wp-admin/network

    You can set themes to be network available or not.

    Thread Starter housebg

    (@housebg)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Jan, I’ll do a test to see if it works.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I think that enabling just the child theme and not the parent theme may accomplish what you want partly but I haven’t tried that myself (yet).

    Yes, that works 100% 🙂

    Thread Starter housebg

    (@housebg)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Ipstenu! That was the one place I was worried about… Back to creating my themes 🙂

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks too, I only setup a single site as a crash test dummy.

    Trying out new things on the real multisite installation has gotten me in trouble before. 🙂

    Thread Starter housebg

    (@housebg)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Funny, I just hit another problem testing on multisite. I originally thought I’d work from mu, in case there were any gotchas I wasn’t aware of – but I just setup a single install as my “crash test dummy” too. Way too many variables to troubleshoot otherwise.

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