Developing from Twenty Fifteen

  • Ginblue

    (@ginblue)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I usually develop themes from Bones or other starter frameworks, but am currently working on a theme (for my own use) using Twenty Fifteen as a starter.

    So my question is, should I obliterate all traces of Twenty Fifteen from the theme code and replace with my theme name. Or keep it as is and just add child theme.

    Not sure what is best practice and why.

    Thanks Anthony

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  • stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Using a child theme will save you a lot of development time, but if you’re making a lot of changes it could get unwieldy when dealing with updates to the Twenty Fifteen theme. Do you anticipate needing to edit a lot of the parent theme’s files?

    Thread Starter Ginblue

    (@ginblue)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    @stephencottontail thanks for the replay, I think my question was a bit vague.

    What I’m concerned with is the text space, text areas, prefixes etc that contain “twenty-fifteen”.

    Is there a ethical, technical reason for keeping the theme name space as is.

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    I’m not aware of any technical problems that might occur, especially if you aren’t planning on distributing your customized theme. As for ethics, IANAL, but I believe that as long as you have a notice in your stylesheet or a README file to the effect of “This theme is based on Twenty Fifteen” and a copyright attribution for Twenty Fifteen, you’ve met the attribution requirements of the GPL.

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