Basic question regarding themes and plugins

  • rreeve

    (@rreeve)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    I’m brand new to WordPress to please be gentle.

    I going to be building a multisite blog to offer a paid blog and hosting service to local traders however, I’m a bit confused regarding the themes and plugins that will be available to my customers.
    I don’t want my customers to have the same theme that I am using to offer this service so can I control which themes (and plugins) they have access to?

    Also my research has got me confused regarding the terminology used, could you tell me if a customers theme is called a ‘Child’ theme?
    and if so, why is the main theme that I am using also called a ‘Child’ theme? I’m using a theme called the Genesis framework.

    I’d really appreciate your help

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Just like an audio player typically has a default “skin”, WordPress currently has Twenty Twelve as its default Theme or “front end”. A Twenty Twelve Child Theme can be made and used to customize Twenty Twelve, and the same is true for most (if not all) others. So, it sounds like you simply have a Child Theme customizing some “Parent Theme” other than Twenty Twelve.

    The only way I can think of to control what Themes your customers might use would be to somehow “hard code” a given Theme at each site.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Genesis is the parent theme 🙂

    All of it’s sub-themes (Mindstream etc) are children themes.

    I don’t want my customers to have the same theme that I am using to offer this service so can I control which themes (and plugins) they have access to?

    Themes yes, easily. When you upload themes, you can either network activate them (available for everyone) or manually activate them per site.

    Plugins you would need another plugin to manage.

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