[support] Sub-theme

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-Family.org
Fri Oct 11 02:34:30 UTC 2013


On 10/10/13 2:45 PM, Pia Oliver wrote:
> Re: [support] Sub-theme
> Chris,
>
> My understanding is that unless you create a theme from scratch, with
> all the template files, you need to use the structure of a "base"
> theme. Therefore, you modify the templates and css files in the
> renamed copies of the files. This becomes your own "subtheme".
>
> If you want to do a theme from scratch you must create the other files.
>
> Pia
>
>
>
What make a theme a sub theme is the presence of a "base theme" item in
its .info file. You don't copy all the files, only the files you need to
change, and you will automatically inherent the others from the base theme.

-- 
Richard Damon



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