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9:10 am _on_ January 24, 2011     
Tags: [Child-Theme ( 3 )](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/child-theme/),
discussion, [Guidelines ( 34 )](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/guidelines/)

# 󠀁[Discussion – Child Themes on the Repository – Guidelines](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2011/01/24/discussion-child-themes-on-the-repository-guidelines/)󠁿

1) Parent themes of child themes that are developed need to be made child-theme 
ready; proper use of where to find files with get_template_part, get_stylesheet_
and get_template_ functions.
 2) https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes documentation
is applied as part of the theme review process when checking child themes, all information
is to be considered good practice and required, with addition to the theme review
representation of license information. 3) Parent themes of child themes submitted
must have passed the current theme review guidelines for the current revision of
WordPress, not if they have passed before, but specifically with the current revision
of WordPress. 4) Child themes are reviewed with the parent theme; must pass current
theme review guidelines and associated child themeChild theme A Child Theme is a
customized theme based upon a Parent Theme. It’s considered best practice to create
a child theme if you want to modify the CSS of your theme. [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)
documentation. 5) Recommendation to use the parent themes repository slug as the
prefix to the child theme’s name. ex. easel-highsociety, atahualpa-wired, this is
only the name of the theme & directory name of theme in the zip, not where to find
the theme; even as found in the https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes being part
of the review process, this naming convention will stay a recommendation; however,
declared best-practice. 6) Description in the style.css must clearly state that 
it is a child theme example: “This is a child theme for the Easel theme.” – This
is for redundancy of recognition that it is a child theme, even though other things
will be noted on the repository that it is a child theme, this is for the wp-admin-
> themes page for the end user.

Additional For Developers:
 1) It is the responsibility of the developer of child
themes to keep their child themes up to date with the current revision of their 
theme that is updated. If a developer make changes to the parent theme, it is the
developers responsibility to keep the child themes updated as well.

Changes, word usage, additional guidelines and protocols, as well as information
regarding use of child-theme tag requested as part of this discussion.

[#child-theme](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/child-theme/), [#discussion](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/discussion/),
[#guidelines](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/guidelines/)

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