Question about Cloning a theme

  • Hi:

    If I work on a site, making changes to a block theme only via the Site Editor & templates – those changes remain when the theme is updated, correct? I shouldn’t have to create a child theme, correct?

    I have several clients I’m transitioning from Classic to Block themes. I’m working on more than one site in my MAMP install (to speed up the switchovers when the new site goes live) all based on the same theme, but looking very different. I’ve been creating child themes, but I could just use clones, couldn’t I?

    Clones are “copies” of the base theme with changes, right? So when the theme comes out with updates, they’d apply, right?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Matias Benedetto

    (@mmaattiiaass)

    Hi @vytaulla51

    Clones are “copies” of the base theme with changes, right?

    Yes, when a theme is cloned all the templates, patterns, styles (theme.json) are copied on a new theme folder and the name and slug of the theme are updated from the old name to the new name. The result is a new fully independent theme. ‘Clone theme’ is a concept introduced by Create Block Plugin to describe that operation (copy and rename) but a cloned themes are not different to a regular block themes.

    So when the theme comes out with updates, they’d apply, right?

    No, cloned themes are new themes and they do not depend on the base theme. Cloned themes are not child themes so they are unrelated and not dependent on each other. The updates to a base theme used to create a cloned theme dosn’t have an effect on the resulting theme.

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