Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Ticket #3662, comment 22
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Ticket #3662, comment 22
v1 v2 9 9 10 10 Here's a quote from Justin Tadlock that might help express my concerns... 11 "When a theme developer creates a child theme, things become problematic because that child theme might eventually need an update. If you’re a theme developer and are building a child theme with a 20kb functions file and five or six custom templates, I can assure you that you’re doing it wrong. I’ve even had to tell myself this. " - http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/08/16/frameworks-parent-child-and-grandchild-themes11 "When a theme developer creates a child theme, things become problematic because that child theme might eventually need an update. If you’re a theme developer and are building a child theme with a 20kb functions file and five or six custom templates, I can assure you that you’re doing it wrong. I’ve even had to tell myself this. What you should really be creating is a parent theme. Child themes from theme developers should be nothing more than a stylesheet and a few functions. This idea of releasing advanced child themes just creates the same problem child themes were meant to solve: upgradability." - http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/08/16/frameworks-parent-child-and-grandchild-themes 12 12 13 13 When buddypress updates and we find a bug inside one of the complex looking functions in functions.php how are we going to update the theme? how are they going to customize their theme?