Eric
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So for Underscores, of course you can use it as parent, but it’s not recommended. Underscores is meant to be a barebone template that stays current.
I like the looks of _s a lot, if I were going to stop doing child themes and build from a starter, _s would probably be my first choice. That said, I don’t see how you can say it “stays current.” If I spend hours creating a theme from _s and they release a new one tomorrow, my theme is no longer “current.” If Twenty Twelve updates my child theme is still current unless I have to spend a few minutes changing the lines that apply to hgroup.
Not arguing with you or bashing one option or the other. I just don’t see your reasoning, but I do appreciate the answers.
You have definitely swayed me a bit in the direction of giving Genesis a try.
Thanks Paul. I think you misunderstood my question: I wasn’t asking so much “what is the difference between the options,” (you answered that accurately) instead, I am asking why would I want to stop building child themes on Twenty Twelve and switch to one of the other options? What are people who have already made the switch able to do that I can’t do?
Take Genesis for example. If there is a compelling reason to use Genesis, I’ll learn the action hooks and pay the money. That’s not the issue. The question is whether there is a compelling reason to make the switch. What will I be able to do once I have learned to use Genesis that I can’t do now basing my child themes on Twenty Twelve? Genesis promoters never seem to be able to answer that.
The same goes for the other alternatives. I know they are different. I want to know what, if anything, makes them a superior alternative in terms of tangible objective measurable benefits.
Your answer on _s makes perfect sense. Why the people working on _s would muck around with existing class names isn’t clear to me, but if that’s what they might do, I understand why I wouldn’t want to use _s as a parent.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Child theme code for removing background and headerThanks again
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Child theme code for removing background and headerOh, I thought it might be wrong to repeat
remove_theme_supportWhen I try
remove_theme_support( 'custom-background', 'custom-header' );It either breaks or the header removing doesn’t work.
Shouldn’t I just have to write that once and be able to put both the background and header things in there?
I guess if it doesn’t break anything, and it doesn’t appear to be, it doesn’t matter.
Thanks to you both.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [IntenseDebate Comments] CoolGood question. I cam here hoping to find out why it only has three stars but it looks like either people just gave it a low score and didn’t bother to review or the “bad press” was removed.
Not updated in year? Warns me that an Automattic project won’t work with my version of WordPress? I guess that’s all I need to know.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How can I list 5 recent posts that aren't featured posts?Thank you alchymyth.
@yuedesign either you didn’t understand/read my question or I don’t understand your answer.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)] Missing content of pluginI don’t get this. Best I can tell, the plugin developer is using this page in the plugin directory to market his for-pay project off-site. I didn’t download the available version (1.0) because there is no description about it on the plugin directory.
Something seems very odd here.
On the github page he links to here it says:
The add-ons are currently not available for download, however, over the next few days a new page will appear on the ACF website where you can enter your activation code / login to your account and download the add-on files.
That worked alchymyth, thanks. I hadn’t tried it because I thought it only kicked in on the sites home page and my blog page isn’t on the front page. Turns out it makes no difference .
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: My functions file won't add image sizesI don’t know php (as you’ve probably figured out) what should I enclose the amended function in?
Or should I just get rid of the conditional altogether?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: My functions file won't add image sizesThank you esmi, I’ll try that. I have been studying a tutorial video on lynda.com that goes through step by step but I must have missed that part.
How come the rest of my functions file seems to work? In the 2nd part I changed the author metadata display stuff and it took effect.
In any case, that solved the problem. Thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Recommend a fast, simple, responsive themeThank you WPyogi, would you say that the theme choice doesn’t weigh very heavily compared to other things like using W3 Total Cache, image optimization, etc?
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [PageLines] Vastly Cut Down Version Of Full ThemeThe description on the download page is accurate. There’s no bait and switch going on here. The free version is popular based on what the free version does.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: header image broken after URL changeThanks again Christine, much appreciated!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: header image broken after URL changeThank you Christine, that looks like the best fix. It works now.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog works but admin sections do notI tried both of those (sorry for not split testing) and one of them worked. I reversed the action on both, restoring things to how they had been and the problem did not reappear but it seems to work ok now.
Webjunk, you are a genius. Thanks very much.