How to handle a theme that is already a child?

  • A question about theme-child-grandchild, not about the specific themes I mention ??

    I found a nice theme “Fotografie Blog” that is a child of “Fotografie” – I tried to child that theme as I read to do so as not to mess up the update path with “Fotografie Blog”. But then I read grand-child themes aren’t really the best thing to do.

    So what do I do? “Fotografie” doesn’t have the nice sticky header that is my main reason for chosing “Fotografie Blog”. Do I modify “Fotografie Blog” and forget my own child concept? Something else?

    Thanks,
    Carl

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Moderator bcworkz

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    Yeah, there can be no grandchild themes ?? Virtually any custom coding you might want to add can be done through a plugin. Plugins are actually easier to create, not that child themes are difficult. The one exception are custom templates. But there are workarounds for even that. You can use the “template_include” filter to redirect certain template requests to your plugin files. Page templates that need to appear in the page edit screen require some special handling that gets rather involved. With those caveats, use a custom plugin to modify child themes.

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