I added child theme support to the theme previewer for /extend/themes. The only child theme we have in there at present that I know of is this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mazeld , but now the preview works for it. Note that the parent theme of a child theme must also be in /extend/themes for this to work.
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ocean90 6:18 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink
Shouldn’t we add a hint to a child theme that it’s a child theme? Maybe with a link/button to the parent theme?
Otto 6:19 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink
Long term, probably. One step at a time.
Otto 10:35 pm on January 27, 2011 Permalink
Done. Parent button now shows up. Only on mazeld, of course, but it’s there.
Andrea_R 6:33 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink
Other than buddypress child themes? I think they were a previous exception?
Otto 6:34 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink
Right, buddypress is a special case. Nothing has changed there.
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 6:49 pm on January 20, 2011 Permalink
Awesome, caise, pross and chip are still hashing out the guidelines with us to make them clear to the end user, will keep you in the loop of course.
jeremyclarke 1:01 am on January 21, 2011 Permalink
Great stuff!
Found some buddypress themes that don’t work:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/unplugged
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-colours
It could probably fail more gracefully than now (white screen in the popup). Ideally it could just output “can’t find parent theme in our repository”.
Luke Gedeon 2:54 am on January 23, 2011 Permalink
…and the page title should read, “Are you my mother?”
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) 10:46 pm on January 27, 2011 Permalink
You know how the keywords are used to find more of it’s like, would having the keyword child-theme be good to have ? to help find more of it’s like ?