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Why you might not need a child theme #200

Open bph opened 5 months ago

bph commented 5 months ago

Discussed in https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/discussions/195

Originally posted by **karmatosed** January 2, 2024 Child themes were a practice often used previously and not that often needed with block-based themes. I want to create a post that outlines the things you can do within a block-based theme that previously you would have needed a child theme for. This includes: - Using patterns: or having more potential through them. - Multiple styles through theme.json: there's a lot to include in this and the main section from fonts to how radically different you can create a theme just with changing the theme.json. Also how to use this feature. There should be a section or note in this 'when to' for now which will include a note to not edit default themes and how to use Create Block Theme plugin.
justintadlock commented 5 months ago

Ooops! Didn't mean to assign myself there. 😆

@karmatosed - Can you leave a comment on this ticket? It's the only way that we can assign it to you.

karmatosed commented 5 months ago

Hello this is me leaving a comment!

bph commented 5 months ago

Hey Tammie @karmatosed So happy you signed on for writing this article!

Good pages to read for your first contribution tomthe Developer Blog.

hagege commented 3 months ago

It would be great, because there are always uncertainties - especially with block themes

hagege commented 3 months ago

Great discussion in the #outreach Slack channel on this topic: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C015GUFFC00/p1710396455165559