Child Themes will now be considered for inclusion…

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~~Child-Themes will now be considered for inclusion into the WordPress Extend Themes repository.~~

Note: Child Themes are not currently being considered for inclusion in WordPress Extend.

Please be sure to read the Theme Review process and guidelines; also, please note the additional Child-Theme guidelines before submitting a Child-Theme for consideration.

Please note, although at the time of this writing the upload script may note the Child-Theme “fails” as the criteria used for Child-Themes is slightly different. If the Child-Theme did actually pass you would see at the bottom of the upload acknowledgement page a reference to the new Themes TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket as well as receiving an email referencing the ticket as well.

You will also be able to check the open status of the Child-Theme in this Trac report: https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/6

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Andrew Nacin 11:23 pm on April 9, 2011

Please consider icing this proposal until further discussion.

I don’t recall formal rules on this. This post was submitted for discussion only, and some of the points there had some extensive discussion in the comments. Some of those proposals shouldn’t make it into the guidelines.

I’ve mentioned previously that we shouldn’t support child themes officially, until coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. supports them. Otherwise we’re going to confuse users. I’ve asked other members of the core team to weigh in further, as I’m pretty sure we’re in agreement on this.
- Andrew Nacin 11:23 pm on April 9, 2011
  
  until coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. supports them.
  
  Which, by the way, will ~~likely~~ possibly be 3.2. This can wait.
jane wells 11:24 pm on April 9, 2011

Hi guys. Actually, it’s pretty important from a ux perspective for us to wait on this until we have support for child themes in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (matching to parent, checking dependencies, etc). Please hold off on this, and bring it up at the next dev chat.
Otto 11:43 pm on April 9, 2011

Just weighing in to say that from the viewpoint of the themes directory code itself, it’s ready to go. We’ve tested it and the child-theme support there works. There may be a few tweaks, but no major changes are required. The only remaining question is regarding the support for dependency checking and such in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
- Edward Caissie 12:00 am on April 10, 2011
  
  This is the reasoning I relied on to go forward with Child-Themes in the repository; as well as the premise Child-Themes themselves should be as readily accessible in Extend as their respective current Parent-Themes are.
  - Emil 10:29 pm on April 12, 2011
    
    So is this yey or nay for Children?

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