Child Themes, Default Widgets and Multisite

  • I’ve created 2 child themes from Twentyeleven theme: T1 and T2. Both contains just the minimum required for a child theme: a style.css that refers to twentyeleven. There are no other file in each of the T1 and T2 folders.

    When I create a new site/blog on my network, I’ve got these differences:
    T1 has no default widget in the main sidebar
    T2 has all the basic widgets in the main sidebar (search, recent articles, recent comments, archives, categories and meta)

    How can it be possible, as both inherits from the same theme (2011) and have no other specific files?
    The only thing I can say is I’ve worked on T1 for a while to test some stuffs, but now I deleted all files but style.css in that theme. Maybe when I worked on this theme, some files inside WP source folders have been modified.

    Where are the default widgets set in a theme? Is it in WP source files?

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  • Sounds like an issue in T1. Want to try a 3rd bare child theme

    Thread Starter Sbeu

    (@sbeu)

    Found the origin of the issue. I had a line of code in wp-config like this:
    define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'my_child_theme');

    plus a plugin “new blog defaults” that was setting the default theme as well. So both were doing the same thing, but there was a conflict in between these two. Can’t explain why it had these consequences though.

    Thanks esmi

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