Title: add basic framework parent theme to wordpress.org
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# add basic framework parent theme to wordpress.org

 *  [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * (@gyrus)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-framework-parent-theme-to-wordpressorg/)
 * I have a parent theme / starter theme system. Currently they’re both on GitHub,
   but I’d like the parent theme to be on wordpress.org, so it can be updated easily
   on sites that use it. Even the starter theme doesn’t have too many styles and
   so on – it’s designed to be a bare-bones starting point. The starter isn’t ‘updatable’–
   once it’s adapted for a project, it’s on it’s own. However, the whole idea is
   that the parent theme – which contains libraries which may need updating across
   a number of sites – is easily updatable.
 * However, the parent themes fails a huge amount of the theme repo checks.
 * Is the theme repo at wordpress.org only for fully functioning out-of-the-box 
   themes? And any set-up like the one I’m describing will necessitate a custom 
   updating mechanism to update from GitHub or somewhere else?

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-framework-parent-theme-to-wordpressorg/#post-5759091)
 * See:
 * > [About](https://wordpress.org/themes/about/)
 *  Thread Starter [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * (@gyrus)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-framework-parent-theme-to-wordpressorg/#post-5759100)
 * I assume that’s “yes”? “Yes” is actually shorter 😉
 * I’ll look into custom updating mechanisms, thanks.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-framework-parent-theme-to-wordpressorg/#post-5759103)
 * All themes included on WordPress.org have to pass Theme Review, yes, :)!

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 * Last reply from: [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-framework-parent-theme-to-wordpressorg/#post-5759103)
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