Overview Development Process – Installation of theme while in development?

  • freaksarise

    (@freaksarise)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hello all!
    I have WP installed on my local hosted machine. The default theme is installed and I can see all working well.

    I am about to dive into developing my own theme and have duped the twentyten theme to slowly modify things and preview as I go along.

    My question is this:

    NOTE – When I refer to ‘install’, I mean through the wp-admin THEME INSTALLATION tab.

    If I want to work one file at a time starting with the 404 page should I INSTALL the duped theme AND THEN manually upload the new files via FTP to see the changes as I make them?

    OR do I have to wait until the files are all updated and THEN install the THEME as a whole?

    If I make additional templates AFTER the theme is installed, what is the best process to include the new ones within the already installed template?

    Thanks!
    Rich

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  • Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Rich,
    If you are starting to base your themes on twenty ten, rather than duplicating the theme have a Google on child themes, in a nut shell the child theme inherits all the parents files, then only those that you want to modify you copy to the child themes directory, if the parent is updated by the author you do not lose your changes.

    This would suit your question about adding files one by one, instead copy across one by one, do your changes, if you do not like them just remove them from the child theme.

    When WordPress released the updates last week there were a few that were caught out as the changes they made to the default theme were overwritten by the twenty ten theme update, copies and child themes were not affected.

    This is a topic from the weekend to get you started, and have a google!

    I am really getting the hang of child themes, and it is not just the WordPress ones, it could be a premium theme that you want to tweek and maintain the original files, a demo with theme variations etc:

    I wrote a series of posts on updating Artisteer legacy themes to WordPress Version 3, using a child theme as an example.

    David

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