Create child theme command

[samikeijonen]

I'll just leave a note here: Could there be create-10up child-theme human-theme-name command?

[timwright12]

@samikeijonen What core functionality changes do you see in something like that? We can updated the script to remove a bunch of files that aren't needed for a child theme, but if there's nothing else beside that and updating a line in the CSS I'd probably just lean on letting the engineer do that

[emeaguiar]

Somethings that need to change are some of the constants, for example, get_template_directory() and get_template_directory() both point to the parent theme, resulting in a fatal error if the theme is activated before replacing them with get_stylesheet_directory() and get_stylesheet_directory_uri().

This of course is easy to do and takes two seconds so I don't think a whole new command is worth it, maybe just a note in the documentation.

[samikeijonen]

Yeah probably not worth a new command.

• Change constants.
• Check how to load parent and child themes assets (JS, CSS).
• Remove extra template files.
• Remove extra add_theme_support().
• Could be something else but those I remember now.

[smy315]

Child Theme Setup with 10up Theme Scaffold internal blog post written on 2/26/2020 outlines what's needed if we move forward with this.